I need to capture and then manipulate screen images from Python, under both (Gnome) Linux and Windows XP / Vista. PIL captures only Windows screen images; ImageMagick (for example) captures only Linux screen images. I cannot find a library or command line utility that can capture and manipulate screen images on both platforms.
If I use PIL only on Windows and ImageMagick only on Linux, I'll have to write the manipulation code twice. Ugly. Or, I could require ImageMagick only on Linux, but do all manipulation in PIL for both platforms (or vice versa) - but ImageMagick is a pretty heavy utility only to capture a screen image. Or, I could dust off my C coding skills and try to implement a patch for PIL to give it Linux screen capture capability. This would be more useful to more people, but would dramatically affect my schedule. Am I missing an option or cross-platform library / utility in my research? Is anyone already adding Linux screen capture to PIL in an upcoming release?
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