https://github.com/rr-/shot

Make screenshots from CLI.
https://github.com/rr-/shot

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Make screenshots from CLI.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/rr-/shot
• Owner: rr-
• License: mit
• Created: 2013-02-18T19:17:24.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-03-10T11:12:31.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-28T02:16:06.412Z (5 months ago)
• Topics: c, cli, screenshot
• Language: C
• Homepage:
• Size: 117 KB
• Stars: 89
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 11
• Open Issues: 7
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.md

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shot

====

Make screenshots with friendly CLI.

Download for Windows: [*Github Releases*](https://github.com/rr-/shot/releases)

Detailed usage: [*click*](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rr-/shot/master/docs/help.txt)

### Features

- Cross platform:

    - Windows

    - GNU/Linux (X11 + XRandR)

- Versatile region selection methods:

    - the whole desktop

    - currently focused window

    - currently focused monitor (established by focused window)

    - specific monitor

    - specific window

    - specific rectangle (passed as string)

    - interactive selection with a special window

- Ideal to put under a hotkey

### Why not scrot?

To have consistent user experience between platforms I use, I wanted it

to work on Windows as well. Additionally, I wanted manual region selection to

be more precise - in scrot, once you select a rectangle, that's it, you can't

correct it. shot's region picker makes it easy to correct offsets even by 1px

before actually taking the screenshot and provides visual feedback of the

screen area.

### Interactive selection in action

![--interactive at its

best](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1045476/8808860/5908945e-2fe5-11e5-93bf-ecad1500c35b.png)

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### Compiling for GNU/Linux

1. Install `libpng`.

2. Run following:

        mkdir build && cd build

        cmake ..

        make

3. If you wish to install it globally:

        sudo make install

### Cross compiling for Windows

1. Install [`mxe`](https://github.com/mxe/mxe) and compile `libpng` and `cmake`:

        git clone https://github.com/mxe/mxe.git

        cd mxe

        make libpng cmake

2. Compile with `mxe`:

        mkdir build && cd build

        ~/path/to/mxe/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32.static-cmake ..

        make