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How do I acquire a screenshot of the active window?

April 26, 2017acquire active screenshot window

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How do I acquire a screenshot of the active window?

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I do not think this works in Windows since _NET_WM_* hints might not be supported there. Use the GDK Pixbuf API. Although it will only output to PNG and JPEG, the latter having an optional quality option passed as a dict with a quality value string of 0-100 to the gdk.Pixbuf save() method.