1grim(1)                     General Commands Manual                    grim(1)
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NAME

6       grim - grab images from a Wayland compositor
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DESCRIPTION

9       grim [options...] [output-file]
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SYNOPSIS

12       grim is a command-line utility to take screenshots of Wayland desktops.
13       For now it requires support for the screencopy protocol to work. Sup‐
14       port for the xdg-output protocol is optional, but improves fractional
15       scaling support.
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17       grim will write an image to output-file, or to a timestamped file name
18       in $GRIM_DEFAULT_DIR if not specified. If $GRIM_DEFAULT_DIR is not set,
19       it falls back first to $XDG_PICTURES_DIR and then to the current work‐
20       ing directory. If output-file is -, grim will write the image to the
21       standard output instead.
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OPTIONS

24       -h
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27       -s <factor>
28           Set the output image's scale factor to factor. By default, the
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31       -g "<x>,<y> <width>x<height>"
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34           If set to -, read the region from the standard input instead.
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36       -t <type>
37           Set the output image's file format to type. By default, the file‐
38           type is set to png, valid values are png, jpeg or ppm.
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42           default, the jpeg quality is 80, valid values are between 0-100.
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44       -o <output>
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AUTHORS

51       Maintained by Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr>, who is assisted by other
52       open-source contributors. For more information about grim development,
53       see https://github.com/emersion/grim.
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