XShot

The XS screenshot tool for X11!

Grabs screenshots of specific windows (or your whole screen) in the format of your choice and writes them to your clipboard or stdout. That's all.

Install

Arch

xshot is on the AUR! It will also install the completions for bash/zsh/fish & the manpage.

yay -S xshot-git

Usage

With no arguments, xshot will simply screenshot your current screen and copy it to your clipboard:

xshot

Takes a screenshot of the window whose name contains "emacs" as a .png:

xshot -n emacs -f png

xshot recognizes when it's in a pipe and redirects its output to stdout instead of the clipboard:

xshot -f bmp -c firefox > "firefox.bmp"

Output of xshot -h

The XS screenshot tool for X11

Usage: xshot [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -n, --name <NAME>                     The window name to target
  -c, --class <CLASS>                   The window class to target
      --wid <WID>                       The specific XID of a window to target
  -p, --position <POSITION> <POSITION>  The topleft corner of the screenshot [default: 0 0]
  -s, --size <SIZE> <SIZE>              Size of the screenshot
  -f, --format <FORMAT>                 The image format for the screenshot [default: jpeg] [possible values: png, jpg, jpeg, gif, bmp]
  -d, --delay <DELAY>                   How long to wait before capturing the screenshot, in seconds
  -h, --help                            Print help (see more with '--help')
  -V, --version                         Print version

Dependencies

• clap: easy way to setup an excellent CLI
• xcb: bindings to xcb, required for reading screen/window data + writing to clipboard
• image: converting image data to convenient formats

Name

Take your pick:

• Extra Small {XS} Screen(SHOT) => xshot
• (XS)erver Screen(SHOT) => xshot