Re: Multi-threaded UI Freezes on GDK Call

[Michael McCann <naetrick comcast net>]

Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 20:37 -0500, Michael McCann wrote:
>
>   
> > Yes, I've already tried that, to no avail. My code basically only 
> > consists of:
> >
> > gdk_screen_get_default(): Get the default screen
> > gdk_screen_get_root_window(): Get the root window 
> > gdk_pixbuf_get_from_drawable(): Get a pixbuf from the entire screen
> > gdk_pixbuf_save_to_bufferv(): Save the pixbuf to a buffer.
> >     
>
> taking a screenshot of the root window takes a considerable amount of
> time, depending on the size of the screen and the amount of windows on
> it.
>
> gnome-screenshot forks in the background to avoid blocking the UI; since
> GDK cannot be called from multiple threads, forking is the only option
> you have.
>
> ciao,
>  Emmanuele.
>
>   
Thanks for all of the suggestions. I'll try out the fork method you 
mentioned.