Escrotum
Linux screen capture using pygtk, inspired by scrot
Why?
Because scrot has glitches when selection is used in refreshing windows
Features
- fullscreen screenshots
- partial(selection) screenshots
- window screenshot(click to select)
- screenshot by xid
- store the image to the clipboard
Usage: escrotum [filename]
Options:
-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 Rigth Click
-x XID, --xid=XID take a screenshot of the xid window
-d DELAY, --delay=DELAY wait DELAY seconds before taking a shot
-c, --countdown show a countdown before taking the shot
-C, --clipboard store the image on the clipboard
SPECIAL STRINGS
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 interpretted 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:
$w image width
$h image height
Example:
escrotum '%Y-%m-%d_$wx$h_scrotum.png'
Creates a file called something like 2013-06-17-082335_263x738_escrotum.png
Install
- on archlinux, yaourt -S escrotum-git
- with pip, pip install escrotum