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by WhereIsTheTruth 1148 days ago
That's very inefficient, on top of questionable tech stack

Why would you store the screenshot to disk, just grab what ever the compositor gives you and render it on a texture, skipping the whole disk write usage

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2019/09/16/new-wa...

It's similar for both macOS and X11 (haven't looked at wayland yet)

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I thought it will be fun to do this with this tech stack, and I didn't want to spend an entire week for a magnifier. It's also cool to see what you can build with a web stack!

I'm not sure why this would be so inefficient, as the screenshot is only taken once when the magnifier is activated. In fact, I don't think we care about efficiency at all for this kind of little tool.

But thanks a lot for the link, that's super interesting, and they included a "ExcludeFromCapture" which would have been very convenient! I'll have a look how if I can integrate this into a Tauri backend!

Oh right, I thought you were taking a screenshot every frames, I was wrong sry