SimpleScreenShot - SSS

A simple, toolkit-less screenshot program written in C + XCB api

📋 Features

• 2 button program(hold left click to draw box, release to take pic, right click to quit)
• Creates PNG format output screenshots
• Option to take screenshot of whole screen or drawn area
• Minimal dependencies, no toolkits
• Easily built from source, configurations made by editing source code

🚀 Download & Installation

Clone repository to directory of choice and enter cloned repository

git clone https://github.com/leath-dub/SimpleScreenShot.git
cd SimpleScreenShot

Run make to see build options

$ make

╭───┤ SSS ├──────────╮
│────────────────────│
│ sss build options: │
│   ├───> install    │
│   ├───> here       │
│   ├───> link       │
│   ├───> unlink     │
│   └───> uninstall  │
╰────────────────────╯

CFLAGS = -lxcb-image -lxcb -lxcb-shm -lpng16 -lz
CC     = gcc

To install normally run:

sudo make install

To uninstall normally run:

sudo make uninstall

❓Other build options:

• here 🠒 compiles to current directory
• link 🠒 compiles to current directory and creates symbolic link in binary directory
• unlink 🠒 removes symbolic link

🏃‍♂️ Usage

SS_DIR = $HOME or $SS_DIR var if set

Run with no arguments(creates SS_DIR/screenshot.png):

sss

Run with -n option to specify a name(put in SS_DIR):

sss -n test.png

Run with -f option alone(creates SS_DIR/fullscreen.png):

sss -f

Run with -f option and specified name(put in SS_DIR):

sss -f test.png

🗒️ Notes

• the last box drawn will be the screenshot written
• the program does not append numbers, e.g. ss-1.png, ss-2.png, etc. if there is a conflict in nameing the old version is overwritten

sV85mVg.-.Imgur.mp4

⚙️ Configuration

Configuration is very minimal currently. It is done through the config.h source file, the contents are as follows:

#define LINE_WIDTH 4 /* width of drawn box lines */
#define LINE_COLOR 0xEBDBB2 /* color of drawn box lines */
#define CURSOR "cross" /* refer to your cursor theme /usr/share/icons */

🗒️ Notes

• The actual captured area will be bound to the size drawn by the user, excluding the lines visable and what they obscure
• You must recompile each time you make a change to configuration
• If you wish to remove the source files after compilation, this is fine, just make sure that you are happy with your configuration as you cannot change it without recompiling
• By default screenshots got to directory assigned to environment variable $HOME. If you want to specify a different directory you need to assign a value to the environment variable $SS_DIR. In your shells config file put:

export SS_DIR=/home/username/screenshots

Dependencies list

run:

make depend

output

╭┤ dependencies ├╮
│────────────────│
│ libxcb         │
│ libxcb-image   │
│ libxcb-shm     │
│ libxcb-cursor  │
│ libpng         │
╰────────────────╯

Void linux

You only need to install xcb-util-cursor-devel package

Contributions

Feel free to make pull requests, I will get to them asap. I would appreciate contributing your experience installing on different machines, what packages you need, etc.