Re: Capturing offscreen windows

Ian Gotenks staggered into the Black Sun and said:
Dances With Crows wrote:
Is it possible to capture [an] entire window (with decorations),
which is intentionaly put offscreen, into a bitmap?
Check "man xwd"
The OP may wish to use wmctrl to activate and move the window to the
current desktop, then run xwd -frame on it, then use wmctrl again to
minimize the window. Remember, if a window's partially offscreen,
xwd won't capture any of the parts that are offscreen. If there's a
way to get offscreen/minimized window contents, it's not in xwd,
I want to [capture a window's contents] [programmaticaly], not using
external tools

Huh? If you want to write a program, then do so--but it'll take longer
than using existing utilities.

I do not want to bring offscreen window back to [the] screen to
perform capturing--this would generate a lot of flickering. And I
want to capture the whole window. [A] window brought to the screen may
be partialy covered by other windows. After a lot of googling I tend
to think it is not doable in X ...

Everything's doable, it just may be more annoying than you want. What
is the ultimate goal of all this fooling around, anyway? You never
provided any specific info about that. There may be an easier way.
Regardless, you should look at the docs for Xvfb.

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