Printscreen from virtual browser? 1

[ThomasJSmart]

Was wondering if there is a way to launch a browser on a webserver in a virtual desktop and make a print screen?

my goal is to launch this process from php exec to get back a jpg printscreen of a given web page.



<?PHP

exec('/opt/media/grabimg -url

http://www.google.com/

-output /home/account/public_html/images/print1.jpg');

echo '<img src="images/print1.jpg" alt="" />';

?>

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[Annihilannic]

You could start, say, Firefox under a VNC X server, and then use something like xwd -display localhost:1 -root | xwdtopnm | pnmtopng > /tmp/test.png to create a screenshot (or use some other simpler X screen grabber)[/b], and then terminate Firefox and the X server again.

There's probably a better way to select the correct window though so that you don't get the window manager arround it... or perhaps make sure that the X session in question is very minimalist, perhaps without running any window manager at all for that user ID.

Annihilannic.

 

[ThomasJSmart]

the manager wouldnt realy matter arround it because that would always be fixed size so i could just crop it to a set width/height.

thanks for that, going to try it

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