;;; scrot.el --- Screenshot functions -*- lexical-binding: t -*- ;; Author: William Carroll <wpcarro@gmail.com> ;; Version: 0.0.1 ;; Package-Requires: ((emacs "24")) ;;; Commentary: ;; scrot is a Linux utility for taking screenshots. ;;; Code: ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;; Dependencies ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; (require 'f) (require 'string) (require 'ts) (require 'clipboard) (require 'kbd) ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;; Library ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; (defconst scrot-screenshot-directory "~/Downloads" "The default directory for screenshot outputs.") (defconst scrot-path-to-executable "/usr/bin/scrot" "Path to the scrot executable.") (defconst scrot-output-format "screenshot_%H:%M:%S_%Y-%m-%d.png" "The format string for the output screenshot file. See scrot's man page for more information.") (defun scrot--copy-image (path) "Use xclip to copy the image at PATH to the clipboard. This currently only works for PNG files because that's what I'm outputting" (call-process "xclip" nil nil nil "-selection" "clipboard" "-t" "image/png" path) (message (string-format "[scrot.el] Image copied to clipboard!"))) (defun scrot-select () "Click-and-drag to screenshot a region. The output path is copied to the user's clipboard." (interactive) (let ((screenshot-path (f-join scrot-screenshot-directory (ts-format scrot-output-format (ts-now))))) (make-process :name "scrot-select" :command `(,scrot-path-to-executable "--select" ,screenshot-path) :sentinel (lambda (proc _err) (when (= 0 (process-exit-status proc)) (scrot--copy-image screenshot-path)))))) (provide 'scrot) ;;; scrot.el ends here