-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ,--[ On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 07:42:44AM +0000, pj wrote:
[snipped] | Within x I'd maybe mangle together xwd with -nobdrs,throwing in xwininfo | (applied to firefox) to extract firefox's window id from it followed by convert I'll be glad if you post how to figure out, Firefox's web UI's window id using xwininfo, and obviously programatically :) . How about using GNOME Epiphany (since both use Gecko :)). Following is a `bash` script which does the desired, in a really dirty/ugly way. To execute this script, you require bash, coreutils, Xvfb, GNOME Epiphany, ImageMagick, sed, awk, xlsclients and perl :) . The script is under GPLv2 or later :) - ----8<----8<---- #!/bin/sh # name: grab-web.sh # author: Ashish Shukla # released in public domain # requires: perl epiphany xvfb xlsclients sed awk imagemagick coreutils bash # tested on: ubuntu-gutsy NEW_DISPLAY=1 GRAB_JPEG=grab.jpg URL=http://www.gnu.org/ WIN_WIDTH=1024 WIN_DEPTH=24 WIN_HEIGHT=768 [ "x$XAUTHORITY" = "x" ] && XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority # remove last session information rm -f ${HOME}/.gnome2/epiphany/session_crashed.xml xvfb-run -s "-screen 0 ${WIN_WIDTH}x${WIN_HEIGHT}x${WIN_DEPTH}" -f ${XAUTHORITY} -n ${NEW_DISPLAY} epiphany --display=:${NEW_DISPLAY} ${URL} & # wait for page to load completely in ugly way # for gigabit internet, this could be 1 or 0 ;) sleep 10s #grab the window id of epiphany xid_epiphany=$(xlsclients -display :${NEW_DISPLAY} -all |sed -e 's/://' |awk '/^Window / { print $2 }') #a dirty hack :), the epiphany GUI has a window id of epiphany's original window id + 3 xid_epiphany_gui=`perl -e "print ${xid_epiphany}+3"` import -display :${NEW_DISPLAY} -window ${xid_epiphany_gui} jpeg:${GRAB_JPEG} && echo "Grabbed :-)" # beware no other Epiphany instances are running killall epiphany exit 0 - ---->8---->8---- Output from the script is posted at following URL: http://flickr.com/photos/wahjava/2263030638/ BtW, are you trying to compete with snap.com which also does similar stuff, but uses Firefox and probably Xvfb too :) . Anyways its none of my business. HTH - -- Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल http://wahjava.wordpress.com/ ·-- ·- ···· ·--- ·- ···- ·- ·--·-· --· -- ·- ·· ·-·· ·-·-·- -·-· --- -- freed.in | freedom in technology and software | 22-24 February 2008 | Delhi ··-· ·-· · · -·· ·-·-·- ·· -· ··--- ----- ----- ---·· -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHswNiHy+EEHYuXnQRAkurAKCHsVLJIEivNxS1Ovi6VQzFTUlNbACgjoOJ JyYSW1pLAOs27ItlyTUmib8= =9nWa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
