I am a freelancer and my clients need screenshots of all the work I did. So I made a python script which takes screenshots every 7 minutes and this code gets executed automatically when system starts. It worked perfectly in Ubuntu. This is the code.
Now I switched to Fedora34. I have modified my script litte bit which captures screenshots and saves in folders according to date rather than putting all screenshots in one directory. This is my script for Fedora
#!/usr/bin/env python
import pyscreenshot
import time
from datetime import datetime
import os
from pathlib import Path
while True:
# Get Current time
now = datetime.now()
# setting current datetime as image_filename
image_filename = now.strftime("%b-%d-%Y|%H:%M:%S")
# Getting month, year and date
today_month_year = now.strftime("%b-%Y")
today_date = now.strftime("%d")
new_directory = os.path.join(r"ss/",
str(today_month_year),
str(today_date))
# Create folders safely
Path(new_directory).mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
# To capture the screen
image = pyscreenshot.grab()
# To save the screenshot
image.save(new_directory + "/" + str(image_filename) + ".png")
# Each screenshot Every 7 minutes
time.sleep(420)
And fedora does not have Startup Applications app and gnome-tweaks > Startup Applications does not support custom scripts. So I searched at many sites and came to conclusion that I can create a service file. And I created a service file to start my script at startup with following code:
File: /etc/systemd/system/screenshots.service
[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/home/<uname>/path
ExecStart=/bin/sh -c 'cd /home/<uname>/path/ && source env/bin/activate && ./auto-ss.py'
Now when I run sudo systemctl start screenshots, it does not throw any error but running sudo systemctl status screenshots throws following error:
pyscreenshot.err.FailedBackendError: All backends failed!
According to this answer
PyScreenshot is for taking screenshots of desktop applications. Since your application is running on a server, there's nothing to take a screenshot of. If you intended to take a screenshot of the user's browser, you would use frontend tooling, which runs in the browser, not a server-side tool.
If this is the problem, how can I run my python app as frontend. And if its some other problem, how can I overcome it?
Can anyone help me. I am stuck on this since very long :( . Well, thanks in advance :)
