grabcast is based on the radical script for OS X
It has been modified for use in GNU/Linux environments and requries gnome-screenshot
and notify-send
- Uses
gnome-screenshot
to take a screen grab of a window or area selection - Assigns a random name to the image
- scp the image using authorised key to remote web server
- Copies sharable URL to clipboard
- Produces
notify-send
desktop notification when completed or failed
- Create a user with access to the web server folder
- Install rssh to restrict user to scp/sftp only
- Configure a new SSH authorised key-pair for that user
- Set the server name, user, authorised key in the script
- Use keyboard settings to configure hot-key launching i.e.
super+shift+a|w
grabcast a [produces an interactive area selection screen grab]
grabcast w [produces a screen grab of the current window (after 2s)]