Go Screenshot

another library for taking screenshot on your Linux+,Windows-,Mac-

there is many feature that still missing (like choosing display, set size, etc), and currently only support for linux, and don't worry about this bug because you can open once and reuse xgb connection

Installation

go get -u github.com/codenoid/go-screenshot

Usage

package main

import (
	"image/jpeg"
	"os"

	screenshot "github.com/codenoid/go-screenshot"
)

func main() {
	// start xgb session, you can reuse this for anything else
	xgbconn, err := screenshot.NewSession()
	if err != nil {
		return
	}
	defer xgbconn.Close()

	// call screenshot method
	ss := screenshot.Start{
		XgbConn: xgbconn,
	}

	// capture current screen frame
	img, err := ss.CaptureScreen()

	f, err := os.Create("screenshot.jpg")
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer f.Close()

	jpeg.Encode(f, img, nil)
}