I've grown affection to scrot as a simple screenshot utility, but it lacks one thing i would greatly appreciate--a way to copy your capture and have it in your clipboard automatically. I've added a line to .bash_aliases that automatically puts it in the folder i desire, and also have it always run in selection mode, but there seems to be no flag for copying the result after capturing. Is there any way to do this? .bash_alias entry=

scrot='scrot -s ~/Pictures/%b%d::%H%M%S.png'

I'm supervising a number of headless displays, and in order for me to see, remotely, what a screen is currently displaying without actually going there and look at it, I'm using scrot to take a screenshot every once in a while. However, one of our displays is a 4x4 (that is, 16-monitor) huge display, and if I use scrot, all I get is the upper left 16th of the display - I would like to view all of it. Any ideas?

I would like to add a keyboard shortcut using [sxhkd](https://github.com/baskerville/sxhkd) let me select a region of my desktop to screenshot using [scrot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrot) . This should be accomplished by adding this section to my sxhkd file, ctrl + alt + x scrot --select but this doesn't work. The command scrot --select works fine when issued from a terminal, and this keyboard shortcut works fine if I change --select to something non-interactive like --focused, so I'm not sure why the above sxhkd entry is not working, but I suspect that it has to do with --select being interactive. Why doesn't this work?

I am trying to write my own screencast script based on FFmpeg. I want to be able to draw a rectangle on the screen and force FFmpeg to make a screencast of this area only, for that I would need the coordinates of x,y of the starting point, and the resolution of the selected area. I can draw a rectangular area with scrot -s and I can also get the coordinates with xdotool getmouselocation but I don't know how I can save the location of the scrot start location. I am imagining my script will be something like this: 1. scrot -s - draw a rectangular area on the screen 2. save start_x, start_y locations in a variable 3. ffmpeg -i scrot_screenshot - to get resolution of the selected area 4. ffmpeg -video_size $area_resolution -f x11grab -i :0.0+start_x,start_y screen_capture.mp4 - to create the screencast So I need a solution for 2 only, I can do the rest of the script on my own. I can, of course, use a different than scrot command for drawing the rectangular area of the screen, but so far, I didn't find a suitable replacement. The final goal is to create such a script and I will for sure publish it on my Github account with the respective documentation on how to use it.

I am running a headless Ubuntu 16.04 LTS in the Google Cloud. There is an application I need to run in the background that requires a GUI. I am trying to use Xvfb to allow the program to run, but as the program requires some GUI inputs, I also need to take screenshots of the screen to see what inputs are required. However, I am having trouble taking screenshots. To test the process of taking a screenshot, I install and run firefox navigated to google. I take a screenshot two ways, using scrot and using imagemagick. Both ways results in a black image with hints of the google homepage in it (see attached picture). The colour and details prevents the use of the screenshot to interpret what is being shown. What is causing this lack of detail and how can I fix this? The relevant commands are below:

sudo apt-get install xvfb xorg xserver-xorg scrot imagemagick
Xvfb :1 &
export DISPLAY=:1
DISPLAY=:1 firefox https://www.google.com  &
DISPLAY=:1 scrot
DISPLAY=:1 import -window root tmp_screenshot.png

I'd like to take screenshots with a keyboard shortcut using scrot --select. I tried adding the following to my rc.lua to use the PrintScr key for this purpose: awful.key({}, "Print", function () awful.spawn("scrot --select") end, {description = "take screenshot of selection", group = "client"}), Unfortunately this results in the following error message in the xsession systemd journal: > giblib error: couldn't grab keyboard:Resource temporarily unavailable It seems scrot needs to grab the keyboard while I'm still holding down the Fn+PrintScr combination. One way to work around this complicates the function a fair bit: awful.spawn.with_shell("sleep 0.5 && scrot --select") The .with_shell and sleep bits are a hack to give me time to release the keys before scrot runs. Which of course means that if I hold down the keys for too long the command still fails with the same error as above. A more elegant workaround does not work reliably. I installed xdotool, set xdotool key XF86Ungrab && scrot --select as the screenshot command, and added grab:break_actions to services.xserver.xkbOptions, but I still get the same error as above *most of the time.* Pressing Fn+PrintScr repeatedly will eventually work, for no discernible reason.