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NAME

shotman - uncompromising screenshot gui for wayland

SYNOPSIS

shotman [options...]

OPTIONS

-c, --capture TARGET

Specify which target to capture. See TARGETS below.

-C --copy

Automatically copy screenshot to clipboard.

-v --verbose

Verbose logging. Can be specified more than.

-a, --anchor ANCHOR

Anchor thumbnail to this edge of the screen (default: top-left).

-h --help

Print help information (use `-h` for a summary)

-V --version

Print version information and exit

DESCRIPTION

shotman takes a screenshot and shows it in a small floating thumbnail window.

Screenshots are saved immediately. The first of the following locations that is defined is used (i.e.: if the environment variable is undefined, the next one on the list is used).

1.
$XDG_SCREENSHOTS_DIR/
2.
$XDG_PICTURES_DIR/screenshots/
3.
$HOME/screenshots/
4.
The current directory.

shotman requires a compositor that supports wlr_screencopy and wlr_layer_shell.

KEYBOARD CONTROLS

The following are applicable while the thumbnail window is focused:

  • Esc or q: quit, keeping the saved the screenshot
  • Del or d: discard (delete) the screenshot and exit
  • Ctrl+C or XF86Copy: copy the screenshot into the clipboard
  • Ctrl+X or XF86Cut: cut the screenshot file into the clipboard (not implemented)
  • Space: Unfocus screenshot window
  • f: Toggle fullscreen (not implemented)
  • e: Edit image (opens it in GIMP) (not implemented)
  • h,j,k,l: Move preview to another corner

When quitting, if the screenshot has been copied into the clipboard, shotman will continue running in the background to allow pasting it. Shotman will exit as soon as it loses clipboard ownership.

TARGETS

window

The currently active window. Only available on swaywm. Requires swaymsg.

region

An interactively picked region. Uses and requires slurp for picking the region.

output

The current active output.

ENVIRONMENT

WAYLAND_DISPLAY

Connect to the specific wayland socket instead of the default.

IMAGE_EDITOR

Specified the image editor to use to edit a screenshot.

PRIVACY

Shotman only saves the screenshot to disk, and will copy it into the clipboard when manually requested by the user. No internet access is involved.

DEVELOPMENT

For issues and general development inquiries, see the project home currently hosted at SourceHut:

https://git.sr.ht/~whynothugo/shotman

HAIKU

Fast and simple tool, Shotman captures the scene, Wayland's beauty preserved.

SEE ALSO

slurp(1) swaymsg(1)

AUTHORS

Developed by Hugo O. Barrera <hugo@whynothugo.nl>.

shotman is an open source project licensed under the ISC licence and developed for anyone to use freely. If you would like to sponsor this project, see:

https://whynothugo.nl/sponsor
2025-03-02