Last Updated on May 31, 2026
shotman is billed as uncompromising screenshot GUI for Wayland compositors. It is designed for interactive usage.
shotman takes a screenshot and shows it in a small floating thumbnail window. The screenshot can then copied with ctrl+c, deleted with d, or dismissed with Esc. Screenshots are saved immediately.
shotman is designed to run in response to some global hotkey (e.g.: Super+P, PrintScreen, etc). It is designed for interactive usage.
It requires a compositor that supports wlr_screencopy and wlr_layer_shell.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Fast (less than 80ms to render the screenshot window on a 2018 laptop).
- Simple design (delegates as much as possible to the compositor; avoids unnecessary work).
- Only saves the screenshot to disk, and will copy it into the clipboard when manually requested by the user. No internet access is involved.
Website: git.sr.ht/~whynothugo/shotman
Support:
Developer: Hugo O. Barrera
License: ISC License
shotman is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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