Screen Scraping for Modern Applications?

[Daniel Nogradi]

> > Scrape means simply scraping pixel colors from locations on the screen.
> > I'll worry about assembling it into meaningful information.
>
>      import ImageGrab
>      im = ImageGrab.grab()
>      v = im.getpixel((x, y))
>
> requires:
>
>      http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/
>
> </F>

##
# (New in 1.1.3)  The <b>ImageGrab</b> module can be used to copy
# the contents of the screen to a PIL image memory.
# <p>
# The current version works on Windows only.</p>
#

How about doing the same on linux?