A simple wayland native screenshot tool inspired by Flameshot.
On an Arch based distro, you can simply install the AUR package watershot, or watershot-git for the latest git version.
This project is a flake! If you have Nix, you know what to do.
Some of the cargo packages rely on system dependencies. For Nix based systems this is handled with flake.nix, but other systems may need to manually install:
- fontconfig
- pkgconfig
- libxkbcommon
Simply clone the repository and install the program locally with cargo. You will
need to have grim, if it is in a non-standard
location you can use --grim or -g argument to set a custom path. A
compositor that implements layer-shell is also a requirement.
git clone https://github.com/Kirottu/watershot
cd watershot
cargo install --path .
Just run the executable. Do note that without any arguments, the screenshots are not saved/copied anywhere.
Commands:
path The path to save the image to
directory The directory to save the image to with a generated name
help Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
Options:
-c, --copy Copy the screenshot after exit
-s, --stdout Output the screenshot into stdout in PNG format
-g, --grim <GRIM> Path to the `grim` executable
-h, --help Print help
-V, --version Print version
Watershot supports configuration of colors, fonts, sizes, etc. via it's config
file. The config file is saved in ~/.config/watershot.ron and uses the ron
config format.
Here is an example config for it:
Config(
handle_radius: 10,
line_width: 2,
display_highlight_width: 5,
selection_color: Color(
r: 0.38,
g: 0.68,
b: 0.94,
a: 1.0,
),
shade_color: Color(
r: 0.11,
g: 0.0,
b: 0.11,
a: 0.6,
),
text_color: Color(
r: 1.0,
g: 1.0,
b: 1.0,
a: 1.0,
),
mode_text_size: 50,
font_family: "monospace",
)