Taking screenshots with a command-line tool

[Maxim Kartashev]

Thank you, Niels!

It also turns out that gnome-screenshot(1) works fine in the Wayland
environment despite controversial help text that asks for an optional X
display.

On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 4:01 PM Niels De Graef <ndegraef at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi Maxim,
>
> Taken from
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72216896/how-can-i-get-a-screenshot-on-wayland-with-pure-python
>
> ```
> import dbus
> from gi.repository import GLib
> import dbus.mainloop.glib
>
>
> def response_handler(response, result):
>     if response == 0:
>         print(f'Screenshot file: {result.get("uri")}')
>     else:
>         print("Failed to get screenshot")
>
>
> def main():
>     dbus.mainloop.glib.DBusGMainLoop(set_as_default=True)
>     bus = dbus.SessionBus()
>     my_name = bus.get_connection().get_unique_name()[1:].replace(".", "_")
>     response_path =
> f"/org/freedesktop/portal/desktop/request/{my_name}/my_token"
>     bus.add_signal_receiver(
>         response_handler,
>         dbus_interface="org.freedesktop.portal.Request",
>         path=response_path,
>     )
>
>     desktop = bus.get_object("org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop",
> "/org/freedesktop/portal/desktop")
>     desktop.Screenshot("Screenshot", {"handle_token": "my_token"},
> dbus_interface="org.freedesktop.portal.Screenshot")
>     loop = GLib.MainLoop()
>     loop.run()
>
>
> if __name__ == "__main__":
>     main()
> ```
>
> -- Niels
>
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 12:36 PM Maxim Kartashev
> <maxim.kartashev at jetbrains.com> wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know if there's a command-line for taking
> screenshots/screencasts that works under Gnome 42+? A thing like that would
> be immensely useful for analyzing automated test failures.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Maxim.
> >
>
>
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