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-.\" Generated by scdoc 1.10.1
+.\" Generated by scdoc 1.11.1
.\" Complete documentation for this program is not available as a GNU info page
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.\" Begin generated content:
-.TH "grimshot" "1" "2020-05-08"
+.TH "grimshot" "1" "2020-12-20"
.P
.SH NAME
.P
grimshot - a helper for screenshots within sway
.P
-.SH DESCRIPTION
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.P
+\fBgrimshot\fR [--notify] (copy|save) [TARGET] [FILE]
+.br
+\fBgrimshot\fR check
+.br
+\fBgrimshot\fR usage
.P
-grimshot [--notify] (copy|save) [TARGET] [FILE]
-grimshot check
-grimshot usage
+.SH OPTIONS
.P
\fB--notify\fR
.RS 4
-Show notifications to the user that a screenshot has been taken.
+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`
+Save the screenshot into a regular file.\& Grimshot will write images
+files to \fBXDG_SCREENSHOTS_DIR\fR if this is set (or defined
+in \fBuser-dirs.\&dir\fR), or otherwise fall back to \fBXDG_PICTURES_DIR\fR.\&
.P
.RE
\fBcopy\fR
.RS 4
-Copy the screenshot data (as image/png) into the clipboard.
+Copy the screenshot data (as image/png) into the clipboard.\&
.P
.RE
-.SH SYNOPSIS
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.P
+Grimshot is an easy-to-use screenshot utility for sway.\& It provides a
+convenient interface over grim, slurp and jq, and supports storing the
+screenshot either directly to the clipboard using wl-copy or to a file.\&
.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.
+.SH EXAMPLES
.P
-A recommended usage pattern is to just bind this to Super+P via sway:
+An example usage pattern is to add these bindings to your sway config:
.P
.nf
.RS 4
# Screenshots:
-# Cmd+P: Current window
-# Cmd+Shift+p: Select area
-# Cmd+Alt+p Current output
-# Cmd+Ctrl+p Select a window
+# Super+P: Current window
+# Super+Shift+p: Select area
+# Super+Alt+p Current output
+# Super+Ctrl+p Select a window
bindsym Mod4+p exec grimshot save active
bindsym Mod4+Shift+p exec grimshot save area
@@ -62,34 +69,34 @@ grimshot can capture the following named targets:
.P
\fIactive\fR
.RS 4
-Captures the currently active window.
+Captures the currently active window.\&
.P
.RE
\fIscreen\fR
.RS 4
-Captures the entire screen. This includes all visible outputs.
+Captures the entire screen.\& This includes all visible outputs.\&
.P
.RE
\fIarea\fR
.RS 4
-Allows manually selecting a rectangular region, and captures that.
+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.
+captures it.\&
.P
.RE
\fIoutput\fR
.RS 4
-Captures the currently active output.
+Captures the currently active output.\&
.P
.RE
.SH OUTPUT
.P
-Grimshot will always print the filename of the captured screenshot to
-stdout.
+Grimshot will print the filename of the captured screenshot to stdout if called
+with the \fIsave\fR subcommand.\&
.P
.SH SEE ALSO
.P