Grim Alternatives

grim reviews and mentions

• 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

  sway laptop user here (for almost 2 years I think?).

  I spent a little while on this, but I migrated from i3, so I just ported every little section of my config bit by bit.

  In terms of battery bar and other "bar" type things, I use waybar[0] which basically does all the things you'd expect by default (just install and it "works").

  For multi-monitor, config, I initially setup with wdisplays[1] (think arandr for wayland) and then manually copied the positions into my sway config. Monitor positioning was the only thing I needed to setup (and telling it that one monitor was HDPI) and then all of the scaling and everything worked perfectly. This was my biggest selling point for wayland, I now get nice crisp fonts and application scaling works nicely (which was not the case with X).

  volume control from the keyboard took no time, just a couple of extra lines.

  There was some stuff to do with the clipboard (wl-clipboard[2]) and screenshots (grim[3] + slurp[4]) that required some setup, but again, just a few lines, and didn't take much mental load.

  Oh and I needed to change my notifications daemon(dunst[5]), and chose to change my program launcher to one with a nicer interface and cleaner fonts (wofi[6]).

  I think that's all the tweaking that I did. Oh, and I needed to do something with pipewire to sort out screensharing at the start, don't remember that too well though...

  [0] https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar

  [1] https://github.com/artizirk/wdisplays

  [2] https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard

  [3] https://github.com/emersion/grim

  [4] https://github.com/emersion/slurp

  [5] https://github.com/dunst-project/dunst

  [6] https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/wofi

• 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.

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