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Simple, light, modern tool for screenshooting.

Project description

A simple UI for handling screenshots.

Installation

  • ArchLinux: yay install shotman.

  • Others: pip install shotman.

Setup

You’ll generally want to bind shotman to some hotkeys. I keep this in my sway settings:

# Screenshots:
# Super+P: Current window
# Super+Shift+p: Select area
# Super+Alt+p Current output
# Super+Ctrl+p Select a window

bindsym Mod4+p       exec shotman active
bindsym Mod4+Shift+p exec shotman area
bindsym Mod4+Mod1+p  exec shotman output
bindsym Mod4+Ctrl+p  exec shotman window

Note: the above supercedes the recommendation given by grimshot. Make sure you don’t have both on your config file.

I also recommend adding settings to position it on-screen. If you skip this, the window will show up centred, since Wayland clients cannot control their position:

for_window [title="shotman"] move position 30 30

It is currently not clear if this application should be exceptional and use a privileged API for better positioning or not.

Usage

shotman saves a screenshot to disk, and then shows a thumbnail and a simple interface.

Actions

You can execute the same actions with a mouse _or_ keyboard:

  • Done: Exits. The screenshot images remains on disk.

    • Primary Keybinding: Esc.

    • Secundary Keybindings: Ctrl+q, Ctrl+w, q, Ctrl+s.

  • Delete: Deletes the image file and exists immediately.

    • Keybinding: d.

    • Secundary Keybindings: Delete, Ctrl+d.

  • Copy: Copies the screenshot image to the clipboard. See caveats below.

    • Keybinding: Ctrl+C.

If there’s a good, lightweight image editor that runs well on Wayland, I’d be happy to add an Edit button that opens the screenshot image in it.

Caveats

If you’re not using a clipboard manager, any copied image will be lost after closing the window.

There are plants to keep the application running in the background until it loses the clipboard handle to work around this.

Requirements

This tool relies on grimshot. It’s designed for sway, but should work on other wlroot compositors.

Packaging

Dependencies for this package are Python3, PySide6 and grimshot. The wayland Qt plugin should also be installed (e.g.: qt6-wayland).

Licence

shotman is licensed under the ISC licence. See LICENCE for details.

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