slurp

Select a region and print it to stdout

$ slurp

$ slurp -d

$ slurp -p

$ slurp -o -f '%o'

$ grim -g "$(slurp -w 0)"

$ wf-recorder -g "$(slurp -w 0)"

slurp [options]

slurp allows users to select a region on a Wayland compositor interactively. It outputs the selected region coordinates in a format that can be used by other tools like grim for screenshots or wf-recorder for screen recording.
The tool renders a translucent overlay and lets users click and drag to select a rectangular region. It's designed to be combined with other Wayland-native tools through shell command substitution.

-d

Display dimensions of selection

Select a single point instead of region

Select an entire output (display)

Require selection to be inside a single output

Set selection box background color

Set selection box border color

Set selection color

Set selection border width (0 for no border)

Output format string (%x, %y, %w, %h, %o)

Force aspect ratio (e.g., 16:9)

Wayland only; requires a compositor that supports the layer-shell protocol. Does not capture images itself; use with grim for screenshots. Color values use #RRGGBBAA format.

Written by Simon Ser (emersion) as part of the sway/wlroots ecosystem for Wayland. Provides the region selection functionality that scrot -s provides on X11, adapted for Wayland's security model.

grim(1), wf-recorder(1), scrot(1)