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authorHugo Osvaldo Barrera <hugo@barrera.io>2020-05-01 11:57:48 +0200
committerDrew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>2020-05-05 20:18:19 +0200
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+.\" Generated by scdoc 1.10.1
+.\" Complete documentation for this program is not available as a GNU info page
+.ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq
+.el .ds Aq '
+.nh
+.ad l
+.\" Begin generated content:
+.TH "grimshot" "1" "2020-05-05"
+.P
+.SH NAME
+.P
+grimshot - a helper for screenshots within sway
+.P
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.P
+grimshot [--notify] (copy|save) [TARGET] [FILE]
+grimshot check
+grimshot usage
+.P
+\fB--notify\fR
+.RS 4
+Show notifications to the user that a screenshot has been taken.
+.P
+.RE
+\fBsave\fR
+.RS 4
+Save the screenshot into a regular file. Grimshot will write images
+files to \fB$XDG_SCREENSHOTS_DIR\fR if this is set (or defined
+in `user-dirs.dir`), or otherwise fall back to `$XDG_PICTURES_DIR`
+.P
+.RE
+\fBcopy\fR
+.RS 4
+Copy the screenshot data (as image/png) into the clipboard.
+.P
+.RE
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.P
+Grimshot is an easy to use screenshot tool for sway. It relies on grim, slurp
+and jq to do the heavy lifting, and mostly provides an easy to use interface.
+.P
+A recommended usage pattern is to just bind this to Super+P via sway:
+.P
+.nf
+.RS 4
+# Screenshots:
+# Cmd+P: Current window
+# Cmd+Shift+p: Select region
+# Cmd+Alt+p Current output
+# Cmd+Ctrl+p Select a window
+
+bindsym Mod4+p exec grimshot active
+bindsym Mod4+Shift+p exec grimshot region
+bindsym Mod4+Mod1+p exec grimshot output
+bindsym Mod4+Ctrl+p exec grimshot window
+.fi
+.RE
+.P
+.SH TARGETS
+.P
+grimshot can capture the following named targets:
+.P
+\fIactive\fR
+.RS 4
+Captures the currently active window.
+.P
+.RE
+\fIscreen\fR
+.RS 4
+Captures the entire screen. This includes all visible outputs.
+.P
+.RE
+\fIregion\fR
+.RS 4
+Allows manually selecting a rectangular region, and captures that.
+.P
+.RE
+\fIwindow\fR
+.RS 4
+Allows manually selecting a single window (by clicking on it), and
+captures it.
+.P
+.RE
+\fIoutput\fR
+.RS 4
+Captures the currently active output.
+.P
+.RE
+.SH OUTPUT
+.P
+Grimshot will always print the filename of the captured screenshot to
+stdout.
+.P
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.P
+\fBgrim\fR(1)