dreamer / scrot

scrot (SCReen shOT) is a simple commandline screen capture utility

scrot

A nice and straightforward screen capture utility implementing the dynamic loaders of Imlib2.

This utility works in X11-based environments only - it does not work inside Wayland or XWayland sessions.

Dependencies

Fedora:

$ sudo dnf install meson imlib2-devel libX11-devel libXfixes-devel

Debian, Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt install meson libimlib2-dev libx11-dev libxfixes-dev

Build instructions

$ meson setup build
$ ninja -C build
$ ninja -C build install

License

This software is covered by MIT-feh license. All changes authored by Patryk Obara are dual-licensed using MIT-feh and normal MIT license.

scrot's Issues

Feature Request: option to copy to clipboard

gnome-screenshot has a -c option that lets you copy to the screenshot to your clipboard. could something like that be added to scrot?

Feature request: option to show mouse/pointer

It would be nice to have an option to show the pointer in the scrot.

scrot -s sometimes captures the white rectangle used when marking an area

Example: http://imgur.com/yH7IwhX here you see a white line on the top and a bit at the left. Happens frequently.

scrot -s did not work when awesome hotkey press

awesome v3.4.13
scrot version 0.8

I run scrot -s at terminal, it works .
but when press awesome's hotkey , it did't works .

awful.key({ "Shift" }, "Print" ,
 function ()
  awful.util.spawn("scrot -e 'mv $f /tmp/ ' ")
  os.execute("scrot -s -e 'mv $f /tmp/ ' ")
  naughty.notify({ title="Screenshot", text="The full screen captured" })
 end),

naughty.notify is work.

Wayland support

Does it work on Ubuntu 22.04 Wayland?

allow specifying directory to save into

i.e. allow option to specify what directory to save into.

%h not outputting height, but Short month instead

Version 0.8

scrot ~/Pictures/Screenshot_%wx%h_%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S.png

Will output:

Screenshot_5xOct_2017-10-13_14:08:26.png

---

Running 4.10.0-35-generic
i3 4.14.1

RELEASE=18.2
CODENAME=sonya
EDITION="Cinnamon 64-bit"
DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya"
DESKTOP=Gnome
TOOLKIT=GTK
NEW_FEATURES_URL=http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_sonya_cinnamon_whatsnew.php
RELEASE_NOTES_URL=http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_sonya_cinnamon.php
USER_GUIDE_URL=help:linuxmint
GRUB_TITLE=Linux Mint 18.2 Cinnamon 64-bit

Status of the repo?

A couple weeks ago I found out about this repo and am curious as to what the project status is. For some context I have been contributing to the scrot fork at resurrecting-open-source-projects/scrot recently.

Is there any plans to continue development in this repo? From the comment here it seems to me that this was meant to be a personal fork.

If you have plans to continue development, do you think we can unify efforts into resurrecting-open-source-projects/scrot instead of duplicating work in two different repos.

Feature Request: Return 1 if aborted.

I think it would be a good idea if scrot returned 1 from main if it was aborted.