[Wayland-bugs] [Bug 99635] It is impossible to screenshot a user selected window.

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99635

--- Comment #3 from Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> ---
(In reply to Pekka Paalanen from comment #2)
> If the only thing you wanted to do is to make a one-shot capture of one user
> selected window, it would be much easier to create e.g. a D-Bus command to
> do just that: "ask the user to select a window and give me the screenshot of
> it". This would also allow the compositor not just use the pointer as we
> have done on X11 for decades, but e.g. display a list of windows, including
> those you cannot currently reach with the pointer.

Definitely. I think Flatpak portals are great prior art here: e.g. for opening
a file, rather than exposing the full file system, they request the host system
open a file-selection dialog, and then pass back a file descriptor.

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