grimshot(1)
grimshot - a helper for screenshots within sway
grimshot [--notify] [--cursor] [--wait N] (copy|save) [TARGET] [FILE]++ grimshot check++ grimshot usage
--notify Show notifications to the user that a screenshot has been taken.
--cursor Include cursors in the screenshot.
--wait N Wait for N seconds before taking a screenshot. Waits after any manual selection is made. Recommended to combine with --notify in order to know when the screenshot has been taken.
save Save the screenshot into a regular file. Grimshot will write image files to XDG_SCREENSHOTS_DIR if this is set (or defined in user-dirs.dir), or otherwise fall back to XDG_PICTURES_DIR. Set FILE to '-' to pipe the output to STDOUT.
copy Copy the screenshot data (as image/png) into the clipboard.
savecopy Save the screenshot into a regular file (see save documentation) and copy the screenshot data into the clipboard (see copy documentation).
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.
An example usage pattern is to add these bindings to your sway config:
# Screenshots:
# 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
bindsym Mod4+Mod1+p exec grimshot save output
bindsym Mod4+Ctrl+p exec grimshot save windowgrimshot can capture the following named targets:
active Captures the currently active window.
screen Captures the entire screen. This includes all visible outputs.
area Allows manually selecting a rectangular region, and captures that.
window Allows manually selecting a single window (by clicking on it), and captures it.
output Captures the currently active output.
anything Allows manually selecting a single window (by clicking on it), an output (by clicking outside of all windows, e.g. on the status bar), or an area (by using click and drag).
Grimshot will print the filename of the captured screenshot to stdout if called with the save or savecopy subcommands.
grim(1)