A native, blazing-fast 🚀🚀🚀 screenshot tool for wlroots based compositors such as sway and river written in Rust.

xdg-desktop-portal-luminous is a xdg-desktop-portal backend for wlroots based compositors, providing screenshot and screencast capabilities.

NOTE: Read man 7 wayshot for more examples.

NOTE: Read man wayshot for flag information.

Region Selection:

wayshot -s "$(slurp)"

Fullscreen:

wayshot

Screenshot and copy to clipboard:

wayshot --stdout | wl-copy

Pick a hex color code, using ImageMagick:

wayshot -s "$(slurp -p)" --stdout | convert - -format '%[pixel:p{0,0}]' txt:-|grep -E "#([A-Fa-f0-9]{6}|[A-Fa-f0-9]{3})" -o

wayshot-git & wayshot-bin have been packaged.

• scdoc (If present, man-pages will be generated.)
• rustup
• make

• git clone https://github.com/waycrate/wayshot && cd wayshot
• make setup
• make
• sudo make install

1. https://matrix.to/#/#waycrate-tools:matrix.org
2. https://discord.gg/KKZRDYrRYW

Massive thanks to smithay developer Cmeissl and Victor Berger. Without them this project won't be possible as my wayland knowledge is limited.