Scran – Wayland screen capture utility

Scran is a Wayland screen capture utility for taking screenshots and recording video.

It provides an interactive selection interface for choosing and adjusting capture regions, can place captured media on the clipboard, and supports writing image data to standard output for use in pipelines. Video recording can include audio through PipeWire, while display freezing helps users select changing on-screen content.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Capture screenshots from selected regions.
• Record video from selected regions with optional audio.
• Capture images with Enter or without exiting with Shift+Enter.
• Start video recording with Space and omit audio with Shift+Space.
• Move a selected region one pixel at a time with the arrow keys.
• Resize selections directly with the mouse.
• Freeze and unfreeze displayed screen content with the Z key.
• Release input focus with Tab and regain it through the tray icon or SIGUSR1.
• Save captures to a chosen directory or use timestamped files in the default temporary location.
• Send saved images and videos to the clipboard automatically.
• Write image output to standard output for piping into other programs.
• Return the selected region as a slurp-compatible geometry string.
• Pre-initialize selections using slurp-style geometry coordinates.
• Disable audio, cursor capture or notifications when required.
• Prevent the background clipboard process from remaining alive after capture.
• Hide the interface partially or completely.
• Use customizable filename patterns with date, time and file-extension substitutions.
• Capture audio through PipeWire when available.
• Use video encoders exposed by the installed FFmpeg/libavcodec build.
• Support Sway, Hyprland and COSMIC compositors.
• Use Wayland ext_image_copy_capture and ext_image_capture_source protocols for capture.
• Install through the Arch User Repository or Nix, or build with Meson.

Website: github.com/iciclejj/scran
Support:
Developer: Stephan
License: MIT License

Scran is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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