<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - It is impossible to screenshot a user selected window." href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99635#c3">Comment # 3</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - It is impossible to screenshot a user selected window." href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99635">bug 99635</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:daniel@fooishbar.org" title="Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org>"> Daniel Stone</a> <pre>(In reply to Pekka Paalanen from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=99635#c2">comment #2</a>) > 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.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>