kanshi VS grim

Compare kanshi vs grim and see what are their differences.

kanshi

Dynamic display configuration (mirror) (by emersion)

grim

Grab images from a Wayland compositor (by emersion)
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5.9 6.9
about 3 years ago over 2 years ago
C C
MIT License MIT License
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kanshi

Posts with mentions or reviews of kanshi. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-12.

grim

Posts with mentions or reviews of grim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-21.
  • Ubuntu 22.10: Error "compositor doesn't support wlr-screencopy-unstable-v1" when trying to record the screen
    1 project | /r/Ubuntu | 27 Jan 2023
    "GNOME doesn't support wlr-screencopy-unstable-v1, which is the protocol grim uses to take screenshots." Source.
  • [GRIM] question
    1 project | /r/commandline | 30 Dec 2022
    It's in the README
  • Good cli screenshots tool under wayland ?
    1 project | /r/kde | 26 May 2022
    there is grim which is supposed to work under Wayland but it seems like it only works under swayWM, the reason why i need a cli tool is that I want to build Rofi script on top of it, I'm a ware spectacle and it is a very great option but I would prefer a Rofi based tool .
  • Tell HN: Gnome on Wayland Is Amazing
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Mar 2022
  • Screenshot app: remembers "selection" mode, copies to clipboard, wayland support?
    3 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 18 Mar 2022
    grim might work well but you'll probably have to write a shell script or something to keep track of the user preferences. You'll also need slurp if you want to select a region to screenshot.
  • What apps are you running on Sway? (Wayland Native Apps of course)
    20 projects | /r/swaywm | 7 Mar 2022
    Screenshots: grim + slurp + swappy
  • Can I install Spectacle merely without other kde packages?
    1 project | /r/kde | 16 Nov 2021
  • How can I take screenshot with imagemagick?
    1 project | /r/NixOS | 23 Oct 2021
    Since you have already noticed that it does not work with Wayland, it is a strange requirement to take a screenshot "with it". Why not use a tool that does work with wayland, e.g. Grim?
  • What are some automation scripts that have made your life easier?
    11 projects | /r/commandline | 15 Jul 2021
    # Details I'm an English speaker living abroad, and while I'm trying to learn the local language it's real hard. I found myself popping open a browser to use deepl quite frequently, or trying to find translator plugins for several different applications. To make this process easier, I wrote a script (bound to a hotkey) which will screenshot a selected area, OCR it, translate it to english, and show a notification with the translated text. It also copies the translated text to the clipboard. Why screenshot + OCR rather than just selecting and copying text? Images and screen-sharing, mostly. I think this is just a really cool way to show how the hard parts have usually been done for you, and all you need to do is put the blocks together. ## Implementation I'm running sway, so the several of the tools are Wayland specific. You could easily swap them out for xorg compatible variants if you like. The script is [here](https://github.com/rbuchberger/dotfiles/blob/master/scripts/screenshot\_translate). The toolchain is: * [Slurp](https://github.com/emersion/slurp) - select an area * [Grim](https://github.com/emersion/grim) - screenshot that area * [Tesseract](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract) - OCR * [Translate Shell](https://www.soimort.org/translate-shell/) - Translation CLI * [Mako](https://github.com/emersion/mako) - Notification window Mako needed a little configuration to show long form text: [category=translation] width=900 height=1200 Edit: added details and links for the tools used.
  • Flameshot, powerful screenshot tool, fully support Wayland (able to run on sway)
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Mar 2021
    I don't wanna poop on their parade, but haven't Wayland screenshotters been around for a while? https://github.com/emersion/grim

    That one has at least been around for long enough, and has worked perfectly under Sway for long enough, that I had to look up its name because I had it bound to a hotkey and had forgotten what it was called.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing kanshi and grim you can also consider the following projects:

wlr-randr - An xrandr clone for wlroots compositors

slurp - Select a region in a Wayland compositor

wayvnc - A VNC server for wlroots based Wayland compositors

swappy - A Wayland native snapshot editing tool, inspired by Snappy on macOS

wdisplays - GUI display configurator for wlroots compositors

wayland-protocols - Wayland protocol development (mirror)

dwl - dwm for Wayland - ARCHIVE: development has moved to Codeberg

wl-clipboard - Command-line copy/paste utilities for Wayland

wayland - Core Wayland protocol and libraries (mirror)

xdg-desktop-portal-wlr - xdg-desktop-portal backend for wlroots

wdisplays

wf-recorder

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