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maim (make image) takes screenshots of your desktop. It has options to take only a region, and relies on slop to query for regions. maim is supposed to be an improved scrot.
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[Feature Request] Capturing the last video buffer before running maim #232

Closed suleymanboyar closed 3 years ago

suleymanboyar commented 3 years ago

This is a features request for capturing a selection of the last video buffer. This means that when running maim -s everything on the display stops; animation, video etc. This is like when using win+shift+s on windows.

foxpy commented 3 years ago

Duplicate of #193

suleymanboyar commented 3 years ago

Would it not be better to have a flag for it and not a work around?

foxpy commented 3 years ago

To be honest I would love to see this feature in maim as well. But, please, read #193 again, and this time carefully. Especially this bit. If you don't like the workaround provided, you could work on the "freeze" program I have described here. This solution is much cleaner.

Also, this issue is definitely a duplicate of #193, as you are asking for the same feature.

naelstrof commented 3 years ago

Would it not be better to have a flag for it and not a work around?

I don't think so, in the README there's an example that works fine to freeze a frame and to crop it. You could even make it more advanced by having it open into GIMP/Krita, so you can not only crop it, you could add effects, arrows, and text. Maim is meant to take a picture of the desktop, and to do it well. Cropping is a post-process that is served great by many other apps.