grim is a command-line utility to take screenshots of Wayland desktops.
It currently needs support for the screencopy protocol to work. Support for the xdg-output protocol is optional, but improves fractional scaling support.
grim will write an image to _output-file_, or to a timestamped file name in *$GRIM_DEFAULT_DIR* if not specified. If *$GRIM_DEFAULT_DIR* is not set, it falls back first to *$XDG_PICTURES_DIR* and then to the current working directory. If _output-file_ is *-*, grim will write the image to the standard output instead.
This is free and open source software.
Website: gitlab.freedesktop.org/emersion/grim
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Developer: emersion
License: MIT License
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