Re: [dev] Announcing a couple small X11 utilities

From: Sebastian LaVine <mail_AT_smlavine.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2023 16:37:23 -0400

Cool stuff!

On Tue Jul 4, 2023 at 9:51 AM EDT, NRK wrote:
> ...
>
> sxot
> ====
>
> This one is a *very minimal* screenshot tool. I wrote this when I
> realized that other cli screenshot tools (scrot, maim) do way too much.
>
> sxot on the other hand is meant to follow the unix philosophy - it
> simply takes a screenshot and outputs a binary ppm image to stdout.
> Any other functionalities are supposed to be handled by more specialized
> tools. E.g sx4 (see below) for selection, optipng to convert to png,
> xclip for copying to clipboard etc.
>
> Repo: https://codeberg.org/NRK/sxot
> SLoC: ~251
> Dependencies: Xlib, libXfixes
>
> ...

I'm curious, what inspired you to write this instead of using xwd? I've
been using a script[0] based on that for many years now.

[0]: https://git.sr.ht/~smlavine/scripts/tree/master/item/src/shoot
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