[cairo] Using cairo-xlib to get screenshots

Oliver embry00s at gmail.com
Tue Oct 15 12:43:11 PDT 2013


Hi! Compiling cairo from the git HEAD and using that library has solved all
issues. Sorry for wasting your time.

Warm regards,
Oliver Uvman


On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Oliver <embry00s at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ah, I've never used a library version other than those from aptitude
> before. What's the safest method for doing this? Can I just compile the
> libraries from git (are at 1.13.1) and link them directly to my program,
> sidestepping the need to muck about with the system wide libraries?
>
> (http://cairographics.org/releases only goes up to 1.12.6 so I assume
> compiling from source is the way to go).
>
> Might not be relevant unless the problem persists in higher versions, but
> the behaviour didn't change when running KDE Plasma (compositing).
>
> I'll keep working on this tomorrow or on monday; it is 21:27 here so I'm
> going to head home from work now :)
>
> Big thanks for the help thus far, it's deeply appreciated! // Oliver
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 9:17 PM, Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 09:11:53PM +0200, Oliver wrote:
>> >    cat /usr/include/cairo/cairo-version.h
>> >    #ifndef CAIRO_VERSION_H
>> >    #define CAIRO_VERSION_H
>> >    #define CAIRO_VERSION_MAJOR 1
>> >    #define CAIRO_VERSION_MINOR 12
>> >    #define CAIRO_VERSION_MICRO 4
>> >    #endif
>>
>> First update to 1.12.8+ or disable MIT-SHM.
>> -Chris
>>
>> --
>> Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
>>
>
>
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