Help with screenshot API.

[rahul vadhyar]

I finally got it working. I can now complete my application. You guys are
quick. My friends expected this to take weeks.
Huge supporter and daily driver of KDE, and as part of my capstone project
in college, I am making a ML based kirigami app(which is why I needed
screenshots).
Cannot thank you guys enough.

Thanks a lot,
Rahul


On Sat, 5 Oct 2024 at 02:33, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:

> The path in Exec= needs to be absolute for KWin to validate it.
>
> On Fri, Oct 4, 2024 at 6:02 PM rahul vadhyar <vadhyarrahul at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > After trying copying code in xdg-desktop-portal-kde, I am now presented
> with
> > The process is not authorized to take a screenshot
> >
> >  From my research(https://phabricator.kde.org/D29407,
> https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php%3Ff=305&t=176422.html), it should
> have been fixed by putting the app in a root write only dir. But even after
> putting the app in /usr/bin and the .desktop file in
> /usr/share/applications, I still cannot get rid of this error.
> >
> > I am providing my .desktop file as reference if that helps.
> > [Desktop Entry]
> > Name=Kool Intelligence
> > Exec=koolintelligence
> > Icon=kde
> > Type=Application
> > Terminal=false
> > Categories=System
> > X-DBUS-ServiceName=org.kde.koolintelligence
> >
> X-KDE-DBUS-Restricted-Interfaces=org.kde.kwin.Screenshot,org.kde.KWin.ScreenShot2
> >
> > Sorry for asking every small thing, I am new to this, and the lack of
> documentation around this leaves me no option.
> > Please help me solve this (hopefully) final error.
> >
> > A very heartfelt thanks for your support,
> > Rahul
> >
> > On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 at 20:20, Vlad Zahorodnii <vlad.zahorodnii at kde.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 10/4/24 5:28 PM, rahul vadhyar wrote:
> >> > Even if CaptureWorkspace returns a dictionary, I shouldn't be getting
> >> > the error that the API doesn't exist.
> >>
> >> I think that the error message is rather misleading. CaptureWorkspace
> >> expects some input arguments, but the example code provides none so
> >> QtDBus says that there's no CaptureWorkspace **with the specified**
> >> signature.
> >>
> >> CaptureWorkspace expects two arguments: a dictionary with various
> >> options (it can be empty), and a pipe file descriptor where kwin will
> >> write screenshot to. A good example how to use that API is spectacle or
> >> xdg-desktop-portal-kde
> >>
> https://invent.kde.org/plasma/xdg-desktop-portal-kde/-/blob/30b9ac6a169ee9f7c36aabbec4038a8a715ac2cb/src/screenshotdialog.cpp#L158
> >>
> >> > To provide more context, I am making a kirigami app. I am using the
> >> > .desktop file as given in the previous email. I am also using the
> >> > following command for compiling and testing
>
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