On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 09:15:32PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
Does it need xvfb just to keep windows from showing up on the
user's X display while it runs? GTK+ has GtkOffscreenWindow that
might be a way to avoid that. Then we could at least avoid
adding one (rather unusual) dependency.Well you need an X server in order to "display" the dialog. Many years ago I tried other ways of doing this sort of thing on the current display. The problem is, that the script cannot in general get control over that display - eg to set resolution, colours etc. Also, a lot of problems arise from other interactions with the display (eg: "You must not move the mouse while the screenshot program is running"). Having a display dedicated to the window I'm trying to capture makes the job a lot easier. An advantage of xvfb is that I can tell it to start with a particular resolution - even if the machine's graphics hardware doesn't support such a resolution (or has no graphics hardware at all). I haven't really paid much attention to GtkOffscreenWindow so I don't know if it would make the job any easier. J' -- PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://keys.gnupg.net or any PGP keyserver for public key.
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