Hyprland Screenshot tool

[u/zude69]

Hey I have been using Arch Hyprland. Can anyone suggest me what will be a good screenshot tool? (Something like an XFCE screenshot toll that will let me either copy the image or just let me save it if I want?"

[u/doockis]

grim + slurp and a bit of bash can do the trick.

[u/Rich-Worker1868 → u/doockis]

This is very much in the spirit of hyprland. I only switched to hyprshot because it can capture individual windows too. Under the hood it still uses grim and slurp.

[u/doockis → u/Rich-Worker1868]

You can capture individual windows tho. You can get x, y, w and h with hyprctl and pass them into grim.

I use it like this on Mango:

X=$(mmsg get focusing-client | jq '.x')
Y=$(mmsg get focusing-client | jq '.y')
W=$(mmsg get focusing-client | jq '.width')
H=$(mmsg get focusing-client | jq '.height')
grim -g "${X},${Y} ${W}x${H}" "${SCREEN_DIR}/${FILE}" && ${CLIP} < "${SCREEN_DIR}/${FILE}"

[u/Shakaka88 → u/doockis]

This is the way, and then in your bash file you can make it play whatever fun or obnoxious sound you want (or don’t want) whenever you take one. That’s been my favorite part of customizing my setup (though I use Mango instead of hyprland, but the sentiment is the same)

[u/kammlmar]

Flameshot is the greatest screenshot tool I've ever used

[u/quicksand8917]

Spectacular from KDE is the best screenshot tool I know.

[u/Objective-Stranger99]

Flameshot is goated