<AWT Dev> Taking screenshots on x11 composite desktop produce wrong result

[Mario Torre]

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Semyon Sadetsky
<semyon.sadetsky at oracle.com> wrote:

> Not compile time switch but run-time. I would introduce a new system
> property, for example "-Dawt.robot.gtk=true". Just in case if your solution
> will stop to work on some platforms or WMs. GTK may be the working
> alternative there.

All right, makes totally sense. I'll prepare a patch and follow up
here as soon as it's ready.

>> In the long run, we will need to cleanup also the XPeer and all the
>> Xlib code and abstract it away or simply replace with GTK or something
>> else that hides the Wayland/X11 details, the screenshots are just the
>> tip of the iceberg... So overall, I don't know what's best here :)
>
> I agree. It would be nice to introduce another layer to abstract the native
> toolkit. But it will be really huge refactoring. Don't know how realistic
> this could be.

Yes, indeed. Another option could be to have a totally clean room
gtk3/wayland peer (not just the laf, I mean the total swing/awt
backend[1]), pretty much like the OSX port. This will also take a lot
of time, but being isolated could give us an advantage and be done at
a later time not necessarily in sync with the release. It would be
interesting to discuss this further, perhaps we could even try to do a
presentation together at Java One to analyse the state of things in
the Toolkit stack.

Cheers,
Mario

[1] Or perhaps we could finally obsolete AWT in JDK10? :) We already
have a solid Swing only peer to use in this case.