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

Portal integration

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

Some usage examples:

NOTE: Read man 7 wayshot for more examples.

NOTE: Read man 5 wayshot for config file information.

NOTE: Read man wayshot for flag information.

Screenshot and crop region:

wayshot -g

Fullscreen:

wayshot

Screenshot and copy to clipboard:

wayshot --clipboard

Pick color with information:

wayshot --color

Capture a specific output:

wayshot --list-outputs   # see available output names
wayshot -o eDP-1

Interactively choose a window to capture:

wayshot --choose-toplevel

Pick a hex color code, using ImageMagick:

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

Optional features

All features are enabled in the default build. To reduce binary size or compile-time dependencies, features can be selectively disabled:

cargo build --no-default-features --features clipboard,logger,notifications

Feature	What it adds	Extra dependency
avif	AVIF encoding (--encoding avif)	rav1e (via image)
clipboard	--clipboard flag, copy to Wayland clipboard	wl-clipboard-rs
color_picker	--color flag, freeze screen and pick a pixel color	—
jxl	JPEG-XL encoding (--encoding jxl)	libjxl / jpegxl-rs
logger	--log-level flag, tracing output to stderr	tracing-subscriber
notifications	Desktop notifications after each capture	notify-rust
selector	--geometry flag, interactive region selection	libwaysip

Clipboard without the built-in feature

If you build without the clipboard feature, you can still pipe stdout to wl-copy:

wayshot - | wl-copy

Alternatively, set stdout = true in your config file to always write to stdout, then pipe as usual.

Installation

AUR:

wayshot-git & wayshot-bin have been packaged.

Compile time dependencies:

• scdoc (If present, man-pages will be generated.)
• rustup
• make
• pkg-config
• libjxl (optional — only needed when the jxl feature is enabled)

Compiling:

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

Support:

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

Smithay Developers:

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