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maim (make image) takes screenshots of your desktop. It has options to take only a region, and relies on slop to query for regions. maim is supposed to be an improved scrot.
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Add flag to capture background for transparent windows #170

Closed veryjos closed 5 years ago

veryjos commented 5 years ago

Howdy. I added a flag to maim to preserve the background when capturing transparent windows. I'm not sure if I implemented it in such a great way, would be curious to hear what you think.

Also, greetings from facepunch/fpp if you remember a user named downsider or jos :^)

naelstrof commented 5 years ago

Wow nice! It's a pretty straightforward implementation. Though it seems to be an alias for simply doing --id root

It might be worth it just because you don't need to understand all of X11 to figure out what --capturebackground does. Meanwhile what the fuck is "root" and why would using its id help me capture the background of transparent images. 🤷‍♂️

I'll merge it! I won't get around to pushing a tag for a while though, bit busy with some other enterprises at the moment.

Nice seeing you from Facepunch! Lots of cool developers from there. 😊

veryjos commented 5 years ago

Ah word, it is similar to --window root but that throws an error when you try to use it with interactive mode- which is my main use case. Or if for whatever reason you want to capture a specific window (so you're already consuming the --window parameter) and also include the background.

Thanks for merging! :+1: