"Is there some mir client api for scraping the screen?" Yes, but it's also not nice. See src/utils/screencast.cpp. That's why I suggest we need to fix Mir in bug 1660269.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-screenshot in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1674477 Title: gnome screenshot gtk-mir crashes on taking the shot under Mir Status in Canonical System Image: New Status in gnome-screenshot package in Ubuntu: New Status in gtk+3.0 package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Tried this with (updated) Zesty plus ppa:attente/gtk-mir-staging then export GDK_BACKEND=mir launch from command line: gnome-screenshot -- --desktop_file_hint=org.gnome.Screenshot.desktop Attempt to take a screen shot in any form and it will crash (see attached log) according to attente: gnome-screenshot crashes is because it delegates the screenshotting to org.gnome.Shell, and falls back to using x11 if that fails so i think the solution is to have u8 implement that interface... https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/tree/data/org.gnome.Shell.Screenshot.xml To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1674477/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
