HyprSnipper – snipping tool for Hyprland

HyprSnipper is a Qt-based screenshot tool designed specifically for Hyprland.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Capture Modes:
  • Region: Interactive area selection with slurp
  • Window: Visual window layout selector with reasonably accurate respect to stacking
  • Full Display: Capture the entire active display
  • All Displays: Capture all connected displays at once
• Intuitive Window Selection: Uses a window selector that recreates the window layout on the active monitor for application window selection, this is my work-around for the Wayland input capture limitations.
• Flexible Output Options:
  • Save to your preferred directory
  • Copy to clipboard (wl-clipboard)
  • Open in external editor (swappy, gimp, etc.)
• UI Features:
  • Minimal design.
  • User-customizable icons and color palette.
  • Configurable window animation delays.

Website: github.com/JWalk9000/hyprsnipper
Support:
Developer: Jesse
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

HyprSnipper is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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