miklos-martin/.gnome-grabbox

Grabbox functionality on linux

Gnome Grabbox

It's a tool to provide grabbox functionality on linux, in gnome environment.

Basically it takes care of

• saving screenshots to a dropbox public folder
• with random names
• shorten the public url of that screenshot
• then copy this short url to clipboard

The random names and the shortened url features are optional, see the configuration sample.

How to install

curl -L https://raw.github.com/miklos-martin/.gnome-grabbox/master/install | sh

or

wget --no-check-certificate https://raw.github.com/miklos-martin/.gnome-grabbox/master/install -O - | sh

Or you can do it manually

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/miklos-martin/.gnome-grabbox.git
cp .gnome-grabbox/config.sample .gnome-grabbox.conf

Make a keyboard shortcut which runs the /full/path/to/your/homedir/.gnome-grabbox/capture

You're done!

Configuration

See the configuration sample

Dependencies

• Dropbox
• Dropbox CLI
• xclip
• libnotify-bin (available on ubuntu by default)

Debugging

If you notice, that this script doesn't do anything, try run it from a terminal. You may have unmet dependencies, or you need to customize the paths of dropbox stuffs. See the configuration sample.

Usage

1. Take a screenshot with the chosen keyboard shortcut.
2. You might have to wait for a second or two, while dropbox finishes the upload.
3. The short URL of your fresh screenshot will be on your clipboard.

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If you want to use it in other environments, please send a pull request on a new branch.