dogtail-devel [Bug 429347] Dogtail's utils.screenshot() not working properly on exported display

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------- Comment #4 from Alexander Todorov  2007-12-12 14:07 UTC -------
(In reply to comment #1)
> Sorry, I thought I had commented on this. I can't reproduce this problem...
> 

1. Log in to your GNOME session. This is DISPLAY=:0
2. press Ctrl+alt+F1 to go to the text console
3. log in with your username (no root)
4. type: startx -- :1 (which start a second GNOME session here)
5. open gnome-terminal and type:
   $ export DISPLAY=:0   ## we are running at :1.0
   $ python
   >>> from dogtail.utils import screenshot()
   >>> screenshot()
   GTK Accessibility Module initialized
   Screenshot taken: /tmp/dogtail/screenshot_20070413-151517.png
   '/tmp/dogtail/screenshot_20070413-151517.png'
   >>> Ctrl+D
6. Now press Ctrl+Alt+F7 to return to the previous GNOME session (:0)
7. Open the image with EOG (or other image viewer).
8. Resulting image is black.

Additional info:
- it's not necessary to start a second GNOME session. You may skip step #4, the
result is the same.

- I have a script starting Xvnc on :1 and a Dogtail script which succeeded in
taking the screenshot. I will investigate further. 


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