Grab images from a Wayland compositor. Works great with slurp and with sway >= 1.0.
Screenshoot all outputs:
grim screenshot.png
Screenshoot a specific output:
grim -o DP-1 screenshot.png
Screenshoot a region:
grim -g "10,20 300x400" screenshot.png
Select a region and screenshoot it:
grim -g "$(slurp)" screenshot.png
Use a timestamped filename:
grim $(xdg-user-dir PICTURES)/$(date '%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S_grim.png')
Screenshoot and copy to clipboard:
grim - | wl-copy
Grab a screenshot from the focused monitor under Sway, using swaymsg
and jq
:
grim -o $(swaymsg -t get_outputs | jq -r '.[] | select(.focused) | .name') screenshot.png
- Arch Linux:
pacman -S grim
Install dependencies:
- meson
- wayland
- cairo
- libjpeg (optional)
Then run:
meson build
ninja -C build
build/grim
Either send GitHub pull requests or send patches on the mailing list.
MIT