A simple wayland native screenshot tool inspired by Flameshot.

On an Arch based distro, you can simply install the AUR package watershot, or watershot-git for the latest git version.

This project is a flake! If you have Nix, you know what to do.

Some of the cargo packages rely on system dependencies. For Nix based systems this is handled with flake.nix, but other systems may need to manually install:

• fontconfig
• pkgconfig
• libxkbcommon

Simply clone the repository and install the program locally with cargo. You will need to have grim, if it is in a non-standard location you can use --grim or -g argument to set a custom path. A compositor that implements layer-shell is also a requirement.

git clone https://github.com/Kirottu/watershot
cd watershot
cargo install --path .

Just run the executable. Do note that without any arguments, the screenshots are not saved/copied anywhere.

Commands:
  path       The path to save the image to
  directory  The directory to save the image to with a generated name
  help       Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
  -c, --copy         Copy the screenshot after exit
  -s, --stdout       Output the screenshot into stdout in PNG format
  -g, --grim <GRIM>  Path to the `grim` executable
  -h, --help         Print help
  -V, --version      Print version

Watershot supports configuration of colors, fonts, sizes, etc. via it's config file. The config file is saved in ~/.config/watershot.ron and uses the ron config format.

Here is an example config for it:

Config(
    handle_radius: 10,
    line_width: 2,
    display_highlight_width: 5,
    selection_color: Color(
        r: 0.38,
        g: 0.68,
        b: 0.94,
        a: 1.0,
    ),
    shade_color: Color(
        r: 0.11,
        g: 0.0,
        b: 0.11,
        a: 0.6,
    ),
    text_color: Color(
        r: 1.0,
        g: 1.0,
        b: 1.0,
        a: 1.0,
    ),
    mode_text_size: 50,
    font_family: "monospace",
)