maim VS scrot

Compare maim vs scrot and see what are their differences.

maim

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. (by naelstrof)

scrot

SCReenshOT - command line screen capture utility (by resurrecting-open-source-projects)
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maim scrot
10 5
2,112 452
- 2.7%
4.3 8.6
about 1 month ago 7 months ago
C++ C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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maim

Posts with mentions or reviews of maim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-23.

scrot

Posts with mentions or reviews of scrot. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-07.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing maim and scrot you can also consider the following projects:

slop - slop (Select Operation) is an application that queries for a selection from the user and prints the region to stdout.

Kap - An open-source screen recorder built with web technology

picom - A lightweight compositor for X11 (previously a compton fork)

OTAcceleratorCore - Syntax sugar of OpenTok iOS SDK with Audio/Video communication including screen sharing

picom - A lightweight compositor for X11 (previously a compton fork)

obs-studio - OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording

compton - A compositor for X11, active fork. [Moved to: https://github.com/sdhand/picom]

ShareX - ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.

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