swappy
A Wayland native snapshot editing tool, inspired by Snappy on macOS (by jtheoof)
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr
xdg-desktop-portal backend for wlroots (by emersion)
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| 3.3 | 6.3 | |
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| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
swappy
Posts with mentions or reviews of swappy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-09.
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MSPaint like tool for Linux
I think swappy works great as a screenshot annotation tool.
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Trying to use Swappy for the First Time
It will save the file in save_dir (see config section)
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Suggest me: Screenshot tool with anotation
Use any wayland compatible screenshot tool and pipe it into Swappy
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bindsym not working with flameshot
I combine grimshot + swappy to get something similar to Flameshot. Not as good, but it has the advantage of... actually working on Sway.
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How I chose the right screenshot tool for my Linux
I personally use grim + slurp + swappy, and i love it! :)
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redshift like gui application
If you want to edit the screenshot, pipe it through swappy
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swaywm color picker
For those sort of simple jobs, you might find that swappy is enough (and much faster to start and simpler to use).
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Screenshot in Sway
My fav is swappy.
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Lighter alternative to GIMP?
Sounds like Swappy. https://github.com/jtheoof/swappy
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What apps are you running on Sway? (Wayland Native Apps of course)
Screenshots: grim + slurp + swappy
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr
Posts with mentions or reviews of xdg-desktop-portal-wlr.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-11.
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How do I configure xdg-desktop-portal so that it works and keeps working?
It comes with a systemd service file https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr/blob/master/contrib/systemd/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr.service.in that you can use
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How do you guys screenshare Sway on Discord?
Are you running the Wayland envvar for Firefox, MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1? Because the rest of your setup sounds very similar to my (working) setup. You could also run the Python test script included with xdg-desktop-portal-wlr (bottom of this page) as a sanity check that nothing's going wrong there
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Which technology / protocol etc. is the next big thing, coming the next few years in Linux gaming?
- Global hotkey portal
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Is there any way to screenshare only a single window?
Not yet: https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr/issues/107
- Xfce 4.18, and the Future of the Desktop
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Moving from a DE, loss of functionality?
You'll need this
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Tearing updates got merged into Wayland! Now we only have to wait for implementations in KWin and Gnome!
I believe that a lot of the current approach to fixing it is something similar to xdg-desktop-portal. That's for signaling for screenshots, but a similar idea could work for listening for key events without being focused, apparently. It bypasses the standard Wayland system completely and uses D-Bus and Pipewire instead. I'm not too familiar with the details myself, though.
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PSA: Steam Link (Remote Play) works on Wayland with AMD GPU
I don't know which of the xdg-desktop-portal backends you would need for gamescope, but xdg-desktop-portal-wlr has a config file which it reads where you can set the preferred output and set the chooser_type to none. That makes it skip the screen selector for me.
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flameshot not working in sway (typing "flameshot gui" hangs in the terminal)
See these links for more info: * flameshot: flameshot gui from cli does nothing. dbus error UnknownMethod: "No such interface “org.freedesktop.portal.Screenshot” #2872 * xdg-desktop-portal: No such interface “org.freedesktop.portal.Screenshot” on object at path /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop #861 * xdg-desktop-portal-wlr: screenshot: Announce version property
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sway inverted screen sharing
This is a known issue: https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr/issues/83
What are some alternatives?
When comparing swappy and xdg-desktop-portal-wlr you can also consider the following projects:
grim - Grab images from a Wayland compositor
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
mpv-image-viewer - Configuration, scripts and tips for using mpv as an image viewer
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk - Gtk implementation of xdg-desktop-portal
sway-borders - Fork of sway with some extra features, mainly related to borders.
wayvnc - A VNC server for wlroots based Wayland compositors
qutebrowser - A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on Python and Qt.
wlroots - A modular Wayland compositor library
clipman - A simple clipboard manager for Wayland
v4l2loopback - v4l2-loopback device
flameshot - Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software :desktop_computer: :camera_flash:
swappy vs grim
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr vs sway
swappy vs mpv-image-viewer
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr vs xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
swappy vs sway-borders
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr vs wayvnc
swappy vs qutebrowser
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr vs wlroots
swappy vs clipman
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr vs v4l2loopback
swappy vs flameshot
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr vs flameshot