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A want to write simple tool that will take screenshots at Wayland. Am I right with my understanding that it would be completely different from Xorg? Could anybody give me any examples?
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Alt + PrtSc – Save a screenshot of the current window to Pictures. Ctrl + PrtSc – Copy the screenshot of the entire screen to the clipboard.
Copy only the image of the active window Click the window that you want to copy. Press ALT+PRINT SCREEN. Paste (CTRL+V) the image into an Office program or other application.
Use Type: Color in the wallpaper settings to get a white background. By default, pressing Shift + Print Screen will directly take a screenshot, without Spectacle popping out.
Yes screenshotting works completely different under wayland than under Xorg.
By design, Wayland is a lot more secure than X11 and does not allow one application to capture the content of other applications' windows, meanignath a X11 based screenshot tool cannot work underWayland/Xwayland.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98672
Sorry I cannot tell you how it is different, just that it is different.
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Your question is a bit underspecified. You don't need to write a tool as long as you use the reference compositor Weston for Wayland. It has this feature built in. You can use Super + S to take a screenshot and Super + R to record a video in *.wcap form which you can then convert to a *.webm video.
If you should really be interested in writing such a tool then you should look at Weston's source code here: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston and find the relevant parts.
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