Taking a screenshot with C\GTK

Question

I\'m trying to take a screenshot of the entire screen with C and GTK. I don\'t want to make a call to an external application for speed reasons. I\'ve found Python code for

Answer 1

9 years passed and as mentioned above API is removed.

As far as I understand, currently the bare minimum to do this at Linux is:

GdkWindow * root;
GdkPixbuf * screenshot;
gint x, y, width, height;

root = gdk_get_default_root_window ();
gdk_window_get_geometry (root, &x, &y, &width, &height);
screenshot = gdk_pixbuf_get_from_window (root, x, y, width, height);
// gdk_pixbuf_save...

This is very slightly tested and may fail. Further reading is in gnome-screenshooter repo