screenshot-rs

Simple library that allows for simple method of asking for screenshots from various Linux/BSD desktops

Features

• Works with some Wayland desktops
  • Plasma
  • GNOME
  • Sway
• Works with all X11 desktops (with scrot installed as fallback)

Screenshot tools required (at least one)

• spectacle (works with KDE Plasma, possibly LXQT)
• gnome-screenshot (works with GNOME, Unity, Budgie, Cinnamon, etc)
• scrot (works with anything with an X server, except WSL or Bash for Ubuntu for Windows)

Freezing screen for area screenshots

Uses feh if available to take a screenshot of the full screen, open it, and select an area of that screenshot to freeze the screen

How it works

Checks '$XDG_SESSION_TYPE' for either Wayland or X11, and checks for available screenshotting applications.

Methods

screenshot_area(file: String, freeze: Bool)

• file will be the path and filename you want for your screenshot, in png format
• Takes an area screenshot, meaning you can select an area of your screen to take a screenshot of
• If 'freeze' is true, then it will use feh to freeze the screen in place to take an area screenshot

screenshot_window(file: String)

• file will be the path and filename you want for your screenshot, in png format
• Takes an window screenshot, meaning the currently used window will be screenshotted

screenshot_full(file: String)

• file will be the path and filename you want for your screenshot, in png format
• Takes a screenshot of an entire screen(s)

Changelog

[0.1.5] - 2019-06-13

• Experimental Sway support

[0.1.4] - 2019-06-09

• Experimental macOS Support

[0.1.3] - 2019-06-09

• A typo

[0.1.2] - 2018-12-07

• feh is no longer a requirement for "area" screenshots, was used to "freeze" the screen

[0.1.1] - 2018-10-03

• Made enum ScreenshotKind public

[0.1.0] - 2018-10-01

• First version (created for ShareXin)