Re: [pygame] How to use the current Desktop Wallpaper as pygame background

["dbcad7@xxxxxxxxxx" <dbcad7@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In Linux, there is a command line utility called xwd , this is probably the best way to go, because it is included as part of the X-server packages... But (isn't there always one ?) The output file is saved as a ".xwd" file. Gimp has no problem displaying them, but other veiwers require Imagemagick to be installed.. and the conversion utils also seem to require it..
So.. the question is Can Pygame display ".xwd" files ?  If not, then is there an easy way to convert without installing more packages ?
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If more linux packages have to be installed, then may as well use "import" or "fbgrab" which can make the conversion immediately. But as I said xwd is better because every linux user should have it.
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Well, hope this helps you get the Linux version running anyway.
Dennis



 --- On Sun 05/06, Will McGugan < will@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote:
From: Will McGugan [mailto: will@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
To: pygame-users@xxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 16:58:05 +0100
Subject: Re: [pygame] How to use the current Desktop Wallpaper as pygame background

Horst JENS wrote:>Please point me to solutions/code snippets because i doubt that i'm the>first with this question:>>How to use the current Desktop Wallpaper as a background graphic for>pygame ?>>Do i have to check wich OS/variant the user is running and then locate>the current Desktop Wallpaper file in the users file system ?>Like Linux/Gnome, Linux/KDE, Windows98, WinXP, MacOSX etc?>or is there an elegant solution that works with every OS/Variant ?>>I don't care if i get the Desktop Wallpaper or a Screenshot of the>Desktop with all the Icons on it...>I want to make an action game where the user feel that he has to defend>"his" very own Desktop.>  >PIL has a ImageGrab modules that can grab the current desktop and return an image. Alas, the documentation says it is Windows only.Will

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