I'm trying to figure out how to take a screenshot of a window that is currently not focused, so there is a good chance that the window will be partially or fully obscured by other windows.
I've found an example here on this link Get a screenshot of a window that is cover or not visible or minimized with Xcomposite extension for X11 but I can't make it work, any time I take a screenshot I get only strange output, mostly black, like I'm accessing the wrong buffer or something.
XID xid = windowID; // Checked and confirmed that the window ID is correct
XGetWindowAttributes( display, windowID, &attrributes );
XCompositeRedirectWindow (display, xid, CompositeRedirectAutomatic);
Pixmap pixmap = XCompositeNameWindowPixmap (display, xid);
// Extract the data
XRenderPictFormat *format = XRenderFindVisualFormat (display, attrributes.visual);
XRenderPictureAttributes pa;
pa.subwindow_mode = IncludeInferiors;
Picture picture = XRenderCreatePicture (display, xid, format, CPSubwindowMode, &pa);
QPixmap finalPix (attrributes.width, attrributes.height);
XRenderComposite (display, PictOpSrc, picture, None, finalPix.x11PictureHandle(), 0,0, 0,0, 0,0, attrributes.width, attrributes.height);
XFreePixmap (display, pixmap);
XCompositeUnredirectWindow (display, xid, CompositeRedirectAutomatic);
return finalPix;
(Edit: This screenshot was taken from a fully visible window, not an obscured window, so I guess currently the issue is not even that X11 doesn't draw it but my implementation seems to be not working and I can't figure out why.)
And this is how a screenshot of my konsole window looks: