Public bug reported: Binary package hint: compiz
Most other platforms provide neat ways to capture a screenshot while preserving transparency. KWIN added a functionality like that recently: https://svn.reviewboard.kde.org/r/4814/ KWIN is offering the API via DBUS. In most cases we need hacky and ugly solutions to get similar functionalities when using compiz (try launchpad.net/shutter), e.g. to get transparency when using a shaped window. When adding this to compiz we could render the window to an offscreen buffer and get perfect screenshots (even though I don't know how to do this). I would imagine to expose the following functionality via DBUS: screenshot() //takes the whole desktop screenshotWindowUnderCursor() screenshotWindowbyXID(xid) //capture a specific window by providing the xid of the window It would also be a great contribution to all documentation-like projects and the blogosphere. The nicer the screenshots are, the more impressive is what they show. Currently most window-only-screenshots look ugly compared to screenshots of other platforms (like Win7 or Mac OSX). Please let me know if I can do anything to help out here (e.g. how to write a compiz plugin). ** Affects: compiz (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/781280 Title: Add a Screenshot-API (Plugin) -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
