Re: Take a screenshot from within Emacs

[joakim]

Clément Pit--Claudel <address@hidden> writes:

> Hey emacs-dev,
>
> How hard would it be to teach Emacs to make screenshots of itself? Not
> the Gtk menus or additional system-rendered elements — just buffer
> contents, windows, and frames.  I expect there wouldn't be a general
> solution; but maybe there is?  If not, how hard would it be to do it
> in the default configuration on GNU/Linux?

You could do it by calling a shell utility, but I suppose that wasn't
what you meant.

I don't think Emacs has the capability to access its internal rendering
data out of the box.

Perhaps you could investigate the Cairo branch?


>
> And for bonus points: what about screenshots as SVG?
>
> Clément.
>

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Joakim Verona