screensnap

A simple screenshooting program written in Rust.

Currently only supports Windows; PRs are welcome to add support for other platforms.

IF YOU'RE ON WINDOWS 10 YOU PROBABLY DON'T NEED THIS.

Try WINDOWS KEY + SHIFT + S.

Usage

Just run the executable. As of writing, no command line arguments are needed.

While the process is running, it waits for you to press the Print Screen key. It doesn't do anything else (besides setting up the window and OpenGL context so that they're ready as soon as you press the Print Screen key, but that only happens once at startup).

When you press Print Screen, your screen will darken. This is the screensnap cropping window. You can select a rectangular area by clicking and dragging with the left click of the mouse. Alternatively, holding shift will allow you to crop the screenshot to a window of your choice.

As soon as you release, the cropping window closes, and the area you've selected gets copied to your clipboard. Most softwares support pasting images directly from the clipboard.

Key bindings and keystrokes

System-wide

In the cropping window

The cropping window is the window that opens when you press Print Screen. It darkens the screen and lets you select a rectangle you want to copy to the clipboard. It has a few handy keystrokes:

Changelog

next release... (master branch)

• feat: support for higher DPI settings

v1.1.0

• feat: smarter window filters (can now crop to more kinds of windows, e.g. Telegram Desktop).
• feat: window screenshots now contain the non-client area
• fix: windows in other virtual desktops being "visible" to screensnap
• fix: weird behavior when the main monitor isn't the upper-left one

v1.0.0

• Initial release