John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> writes: > 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.
I think it's fine to depend on xvfb if it produces better or more reliable results or even if it's just easier to implement. I just wondered if you'd considered that alternate approach. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list pspp-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev
