Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 20:37 -0500, Michael McCann wrote:
>
>
>> Yes, I've already tried that, to no avail. My code basically only
>> consists of:
>>
>> gdk_screen_get_default(): Get the default screen
>> gdk_screen_get_root_window(): Get the root window
>> gdk_pixbuf_get_from_drawable(): Get a pixbuf from the entire screen
>> gdk_pixbuf_save_to_bufferv(): Save the pixbuf to a buffer.
>>
>
> taking a screenshot of the root window takes a considerable amount of
> time, depending on the size of the screen and the amount of windows on
> it.
>
> gnome-screenshot forks in the background to avoid blocking the UI; since
> GDK cannot be called from multiple threads, forking is the only option
> you have.
>
> ciao,
> Emmanuele.
>
>
Thanks for all of the suggestions. I'll try out the fork method you
mentioned.
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