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Newtron Malayalam
Asked: 2020-01-20 06:54:56 +0800 CST

How to get a screen shot of a window from command line using window id

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How to get a screenshot of only one window from the command line if I have window id? enter image description here

I want to show a preview screen like this for a specific window with qml and pyqt5. What can I do then?

command-line screenshot pyqt5 qml

1 Answers

  1. You can raise the relevant window with the wmctrl command and take its screenshot using the gnome-screenshot command. For example, assuming that the window id is 0x02600010, you can use:

    wmctrl -i -a 0x02600010 && gnome-screenshot -w
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