grimblast is a command-line screenshot helper for Hyprland. It adapts the approach used by grimshot for Sway, combining grim, slurp, and Hyprland’s window information to make common screen-capture tasks easier to invoke.
Rather than providing its own screenshot editor or selection engine, grimblast coordinates existing Wayland tools. It can be called from a terminal, script, or Hyprland keyboard shortcut, with separate actions for saving a screenshot, copying it to the clipboard, or handing it to an image editor.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Captures the active window, currently active display output, entire desktop across outputs, or an interactively selected region.
- Allows users to click a window or drag an area when choosing a capture target.
- Provides save, copy, combined copy-and-save, and edit actions.
- Supports PNG, PPM, and JPEG files, while clipboard operations use PNG.
- Can freeze the screen before an area is selected, helping capture transient interface elements.
- Offers delayed capture, including fractional-second delays after manual selection.
- Can include the mouse pointer where supported by the selected capture method.
- Allows image scaling to be passed through to grim.
- Displays optional desktop notifications with configurable expiry times.
- Can open the containing folder when interacting with a notification.
- Lets users choose an external editor through an environment variable.
- Uses configurable screenshot directories, temporary editing directories, and timestamp-based filename formats.
- Supports customizable slurp arguments and predefined selection rectangles.
- Can send saved image data to standard output for shell pipelines.
- Includes a dependency-checking action and prevents overlapping capture instances.
Website: github.com/hyprwm/contrib/tree/main/grimblast
Support:
Developer: Hypr Development contributors
License: MIT License
Related Software
| Screen Capture GUI Tools for Hyprland | |
|---|---|
| HyprQuickFrame | Native screenshot utility for Hyprland built with Quickshell |
| HyprCap | Capture screenshots and screen recordings on Hyprland |
| hyprsnap | Script-based screenshot utility |
| HyprSnipper | Qt-based screenshot tool designed specifically for Hyprland |
| HyprQuickshot | Screenshot utility for Hyprland built with Quickshell |
| grimblast | Helper for screenshots within Hyprland |
| FramR | Annotate, record and upload captures from Wayland desktops |
| Scran | Capture images and videos on supported Wayland compositors |
Read our verdict in the software roundup.
| CLI Screen Capture Tools | |
|---|---|
| maim | Make Image aims to improve on scrot |
| scrot | SCReenshOT is a simple command line screen capture utility |
| slop | Queries for a selection from the user and prints the region to stdout |
| wayshot | Screenshot tool for wayland compositors |
| termframe | Terminal output SVG screenshot tool |
| grim | Utility to take screenshots of Wayland desktops |
| shotman | Uncompromising screenshot tool for Wayland compositors |
| shotgun | Minimal screenshot utility |
| ImageMagick | Create, edit, and compose bitmap images |
| HyprCap | Capture screenshots and screen recordings on Hyprland |
| grimblast | Capture windows, selected areas, and screens on Hyprland |
| lqth | Simple but fast screenshot utility inspired by xscreenshot |
| grimshot | Capture windows, selected areas, and screens under Sway |
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