How To Take a Selection Screenshot (without layer-shell)

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How To Take a Selection Screenshot (without layer-shell)

VehementHam opened this issue a year ago · 6 comments

Is this possible?If so, what tool or workaround is requiresd?

Answer 1 · 2023-09-01T10:05:04.000Z

Please take a look at grim. The archwiki page
(https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Screen_capture#Wayland) has some
relevant information too.

Answer 2 · 2023-09-01T22:26:34.000Z

grim requires slurp. slurp requires Layer-Shell. maim --select works, but maim is being run through Xwayland, and I prefer to avoid running Xorg applications when I can. In this case it may not make a difference, though.

Answer 3 · 2023-09-02T17:33:17.000Z

AFAIK, grim doesn't require the layer-shell protocol? According to the
man page, it is based on the screencopy protocol... In any case, I can
use grim in cagebreak to take screenshots even though we have not
implemented the layer-shell protocol. Can you reproduce this?

Answer 4 · 2023-09-03T21:42:22.000Z

What commands do you use?

Answer 5 · 2023-09-04T07:31:31.000Z

So for example:
grim -g "200,200 100x100".

Answer 6 · 2023-09-07T17:26:29.000Z

Hi VehemntHam

Since this is an issue regarding usage and not primarily a bug in
Cagebreak, we are closing it for now, seeing as it hasn't seen any
activity for several days. Feel free to reopen if your issue persists.

cheers
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