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RPi-Distro / chromium-browser

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--screenshot broken #2

Closed Aarda closed 4 years ago

Aarda commented 5 years ago

chromium-browser --window-size=1280,1024 --screenshot --headless https://raspberrypi.org

No screenshot is created.

RPI4 chromium-browser --version Chromium 74.0.3729.157 Built on Raspbian , running on Raspbian 10

spl237 commented 5 years ago

Is there some reason you are using chromium to get a screenshot rather than scrot, the tool included in Raspbian for that purpose?

XECDesign commented 5 years ago

@spl237 It allows the user to take a screen shot in headless mode. For example, to render a web page into a png without actually running a desktop. I don't know what the actual use case is, but this has come up before and seems to be something some users want to do. I had a quick look, but couldn't find an obvious reason it wasn't working. The plan is to dig further when time allows.

Aarda commented 5 years ago

@spl237. Yeah, chromium can run on a headless install (without X), e.g. Ubuntu server or Raspbian Lite.

Use case:

automate testing for web development,
create pictures for documentation.

BTW also creating screenshots with selenium is not working, probably related.

XECDesign commented 4 years ago

New version which fixes this issue is available for testing here - https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=258892