crabture

Standalone Linux screenshot tool written in Rust. No external dependencies required — works on both X11 and Wayland.

Features

• Full-screen capture — instant screenshot of primary or any monitor
• Region capture — specify exact coordinates (x,y,WxH)
• Interactive area selection — click and drag with visual overlay feedback
• Interactive TUI — guided menu for timing, target, and save method
• Multi-monitor support — list and capture any connected monitor
• Clipboard support — copy screenshots directly to the clipboard
• Delayed capture — configurable countdown (5/10/20/30/60 seconds)
• Desktop notifications — status feedback via system notifications
• Multiple formats — save as PNG or JPG
• XDG-compliant — respects XDG_SCREENSHOTS_DIR, falls back to ~/Pictures

Installation

From crates.io

cargo install crabture

From source

git clone https://github.com/piny4man/crabture.git
cd crabture
cargo build --release
# binary at target/release/crabture

Arch Linux (AUR)

# Using an AUR helper
paru -S crabture-git

Build dependencies

These are only needed when building from source. Prebuilt binaries from the releases page have no extra runtime dependencies.

Debian / Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install -y \
  libclang-dev libwayland-dev libpipewire-0.3-dev libegl-dev \
  libgbm-dev libdrm-dev libxcb1-dev libxcb-shm0-dev libxcb-randr0-dev

Arch Linux

sudo pacman -S clang libxcb wayland pipewire

Usage

# Interactive TUI (default)
crabture

# Instant full-screen screenshot
crabture --instant

# Capture a specific monitor (1-based index)
crabture --monitor 2

# Interactive area selection
crabture --select

# Capture a region by coordinates
crabture --region 100,200,800x600

# Copy to clipboard instead of saving
crabture --instant --copy

# Save as JPG to a specific directory
crabture --instant --format jpg ~/screenshots

# List available monitors
crabture --list-monitors

License

GPL-3.0 — see LICENSE for details.