Escrotum (Help Wanted!)
Linux screen capture and screen recording program inspired by scrot.
Why?
Because scrot has glitches when selection is used in refreshing windows
Features
- fullscreen screenshots
- screen recording
- partial(selection) screenshots
- window screenshot(click to select)
- screenshot by xid
- store the image to the clipboard
usage: escrotum [-h] [-v] [-s] [-x XID] [-d DELAY]
[--selection-delay SELECTION_DELAY] [-c] [-C] [-e COMMAND]
[-r]
[FILENAME]
positional arguments:
FILENAME image filename, default is
%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S_$wx$h_escrotum.png
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-v, --version output version information and exit
-s, --select interactively choose a window or rectangle with the
mouse, cancels with Esc or Right Click
-x XID, --xid XID take a screenshot of the xid window
-d DELAY, --delay DELAY
wait DELAY seconds before taking a shot
--selection-delay SELECTION_DELAY
delay in milliseconds between selection/screenshot
-c, --countdown show a countdown before taking the shot (requires
delay)
-C, --clipboard store the image on the clipboard
-e COMMAND, --exec COMMAND
run the command after the image is taken
-r, --record screen recording. Alt+Ctrl+s to stop the recording
SPECIAL STRINGS
Both the --exec and filename parameters can take format specifiers
that are expanded by escrotum when encountered.
There are two types of format specifier. Characters preceded by a '%'
are interpreted by strftime(2). See man strftime for examples.
These options may be used to refer to the current date and time.
The second kind are internal to escrotum and are prefixed by '$'
The following specifiers are recognised:
$f image path/filename (ignored when used in the filename)
$w image width
$h image height
Example:
escrotum '%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S_$wx$h_escrotum.png'
Creates a file called something like 2013-06-17-082335_263x738_escrotum.png
EXIT STATUS CODES
1 can't get the window by xid
2 invalid pixbuf
3 can't save the image
4 user canceled selection
5 can't grab the mouse
6 error with ffmpeg
Install
- on archlinux, install with your favorite aur manager, ie. yay -S escrotum-git
- with pip, pip install escrotum