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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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Screenshotting a monitor instead of the entire screen #235

Closed Alee14 closed 3 years ago

Alee14 commented 3 years ago

Hello, I would like to know if there's a way I can take a screenshot on one monitor instead of it taking two monitors.

foxpy commented 3 years ago

Hello, I would like to know if there's a way I can take a screenshot on one monitor instead of it taking two monitors.

Currently I don't have any external monitors I could connect to my laptop to debug this, but there are some useful hints for you:

1) use xrandr. It outputs size of screen which you could use later as argument for maim. For example:

Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1366 x 768, maximum 32767 x 32767
LVDS1 connected primary 1366x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 280mm x 160mm

We are interested in parameter 1366x768+0+0.

2) use maim flag -g and pass parameter from hint 1 into it, this will make maim capture only specified screen.

Alee14 commented 3 years ago

Ahh thanks