A console screenshot utility.

Abandoned, was www.linuxbrit.co.uk/scrot/

A good use is:

\scrot  --select  'screenshot--%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M--$wx$h.png' --exec  '\mv  $f  /l/__ ; \gpicview /l/__/$f' \\

Replace GPicView with your favourite image viewer.

2017-12-09 on Devuan-1.0.0-jessie-i386-DVD
2016-03-30 - 0.8, on Slackware 14.1
2016-03-25 - 0.8, on Lubuntu 14.04.4 LTS

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2016-03-30 - 0.8 ∞

This was installed with slpkg:

\slpkg  -s sbo  scrot

Spoiler

+==============================================================================
| Package                 New version        Arch    Build  Repos          Size
+==============================================================================
Installing:
  scrot                   0.8                i486           SBo
Installing for dependencies:
  imlib2                  1.4.7              i486           SBo
  giblib                  1.2.4              i486           SBo

Seems to work just fine.

\scrot --help has a typo:

  -s, --select              interactively choose a window or rectnagle

2016-03-25 - 0.8 ∞

This came with Lubuntu.

Take a screenshot ∞

\scrot

Take a screenshot of a window ∞

\scrot  --select  --delay 5

Specify filename and directory ∞

Filename ∞

WARNING - This will overwrite an existing file, with no prompt.

\scrot  'filename.png'

Spoiler

  Both the --exec and filename parameters can take format specifiers
  that are expanded by scrot when encountered.
  There are two types of format specifier. Characters preceded by a '%'
  are interpreted by strftime(2). See man strftime for examples.
  These options may be used to refer to the current date and time.
  The second kind are internal to scrot  and are prefixed by '$'
  The following specifiers are recognised:
                  $f image path/filename (ignored when used in the filename)
                  $m thumbnail path/filename
                  $n image name (ignored when used in the filename)
                  $s image size (bytes) (ignored when used in the filename)
                  $p image pixel size
                  $w image width
                  $h image height
                  $t image format
                  $$  prints a literal '$'
                  \n prints a newline (ignored when used in the filename)
  Example:
          scrot '%Y-%m-%d_$wx$h_scrot.png' -e 'mv $f ~/images/shots/'
          Creates a file called something like 2000-10-30_2560x1024_scrot.png
          and moves it to your images directory.

Target directory ∞

\scrot  --exec  '\mv  $f  /path/to/dir/'

Open image with an application ∞

\scrot  --exec APP

Last updated 2017-12-09 at 01:04:39

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