Screen-Scrape Konsole output

[Kevin Krammer]

On Thursday, 2010-06-03, Ram wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I had a small automation program , that would screen-scrape konsole
> output and take actions accordingly
> 
> To "read" the Konsole window , I used to use automated-mouseclicks and
> the use dcop to read the klipper output.

You can use qdbus to access Klipper in basically the same way.

> I was hoping qdbus can support function like readSessionWindow(); that
> returns the Visible text on the window, Is it possible

No idea.You can use qbudsviewer to expore the D-Bus API of applications.
Another approach might be to read the history buffer file (assuming it doesn't 
just keep that in memory).

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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