grimshot - a helper for screenshots within sway
grimshot [--notify] [--cursor] [--wait N] (copy|save)
[TARGET] [FILE]
grimshot check
grimshot usage
--notify
Show notifications to the user that a screenshot has been
taken.
--cursor
Include cursors in the screenshot.
--wait N
Wait for N seconds before taking a screenshot. Waits
after any manual selection is made. Recommended to combine with --notify in
order to know when the screenshot has been taken.
save
Save the screenshot into a regular file. Grimshot will
write image files to XDG_SCREENSHOTS_DIR if this is set (or defined in
user-dirs.dir), or otherwise fall back to XDG_PICTURES_DIR. Set
FILE to '-' to pipe the output to STDOUT.
copy
Copy the screenshot data (as image/png) into the
clipboard.
savecopy
Save the screenshot into a regular file (see save
documentation) and copy the screenshot data into the clipboard (see
copy documentation).
Grimshot is an easy-to-use screenshot utility for sway. It
provides a convenient interface over grim, slurp and jq, and supports
storing the screenshot either directly to the clipboard using wl-copy or to
a file.
An example usage pattern is to add these bindings to your sway
config:
# 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 grimshot save active
bindsym Mod4+Shift+p exec grimshot save area
bindsym Mod4+Mod1+p exec grimshot save output
bindsym Mod4+Ctrl+p exec grimshot save window
grimshot can capture the following named targets:
active
Captures the currently active window.
screen
Captures the entire screen. This includes all visible
outputs.
area
Allows manually selecting a rectangular region, and
captures that.
window
Allows manually selecting a single window (by clicking on
it), and captures it.
output
Captures the currently active output.
anything
Allows manually selecting a single window (by clicking on
it), an output (by clicking outside of all windows, e.g. on the status bar),
or an area (by using click and drag).
Grimshot will print the filename of the captured screenshot to
stdout if called with the save or savecopy subcommands.