~gagbo/showcase

Headless screenshotter of GUI apps
Tweak director setup for better screenshots
Make emacs-director driven version
Add timestamp of the screenshot

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#Showcase: headless and automated screenshot app

Utility that runs a graphical application like emacs and gets a screenshot.

This has been tested on Wayland, with Emacs, as it's probably going to be used to generate screenshots for various themes.

./showcase
xdg-open virtual_screen.png

#Dependencies

  • xvfb
  • i3
  • i3bar
  • scrot

#Usecases

  • Produce screenshots from a GUI app in a CI setting
  • Produce minimal reproducible examples for UI/layout related issues