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6 slurp - select a region in a Wayland compositor
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9 slurp [options...]
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12 slurp is a command-line utility to select a region from Wayland compos‐
13 itors which support the layer-shell protocol. It lets the user hold the
14 pointer to select, or click to cancel the selection.
15 If the standard input is not a TTY or the -r option is used, slurp will
17 read a list of predefined rectangles for quick selection. Each line
18 must be in the form "<x>,<y> <width>x<height> [label]". The label is
19 optional and can be any string that doesn't contain newlines. It can be
20 accessed using the "%l" sequence in a format string.
21 If the Esc key is pressed, selection is cancelled. If the Space key is
23 held, the selection is moved instead of being resized.
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26 -h
27 Show help message and quit.
28 -d
30 Display dimensions of selection.
31 -b color
33 Set background color. See COLORS for more detail.
34 -c color
36 Set border color. See COLORS for more detail.
37 -s color
39 Set selection color. See COLORS for more detail.
40 -B color
42 Set color for highlighting predefined rectangles from standard in‐
43 put when not selected.
44 -F font family
46 Set the font family name when displaying the dimensions box. Only
47 useful when combined with the -d option. The available font family
48 names guaranteed to work are the standard generic CSS2 options:
49 serif, sans-serif, monospace, cursive and fantasy. It defaults to
50 the sans-serif family name.
51 -w weight
53 Set border weight.
54 -f format
56 Set format. See FORMAT for more detail.
57 -p
59 Select a single pixel instead of a rectangle. This mode ignores any
60 predefined rectangles read from the standard input.
61 -o
63 Add predefined rectangles for all outputs, as if provided on stan‐
64 dard input. The label will be the name of the output.
65 -r
67 Require the user to select one of the predefined rectangles. These
68 can come from standard input, if -o is used, the rectangles of all
69 display outputs. This option conflicts with -p.
70 -a width:height
72 Force selections to have the given aspect ratio. This constraint is
73 not applied to the predefined rectangles specified using -o.
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76 Colors may be specified in #RRGGBB or #RRGGBBAA format. The # is op‐
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80 Interpreted sequences are:
81 %x The x-coordinate of the selection
83 %y The y-coordinate of the selection
85 %w The width of the selection
87 %h The height of the selection
89 %X The x-coordinate of the selection with coordinates relative to the
91 output
92 containing the top left corner.
93 %Y The y-coordinate of the selection with coordinates relative to the
95 output
96 containing the top left corner.
97 %W The width of the selection cropped to the output containing the
99 top left
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101 %H The height of the selection cropped to the output containing the
103 top left
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105 %l Label included with region from stdin
107 %o The name of the output containing the top left corner, or "<un‐
109 known>" if
110 not known
111 The default format is "%x,%y %wx%h\n".
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115 The following keyboard actions can be used during selection:
116 Escape Cancel the selection and exit slurp
118 Space If currently making a selection, while space is held down,
120 move the entire selection rather than change the selection's size as
121 you move the pointer.
122 Shift Experimental. If the -a option wasn't specified, then set the
124 aspect ratio to 1:1 while shift is held down, releasing it restores the
125 un-constrained aspect ratio. Note: This behavior may change in the fu‐
126 ture depending on feedback.
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129 Maintained by Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr>, who is assisted by other
130 open-source contributors. For more information about slurp development,
131 see https://github.com/emersion/slurp.
132 2022-12-10 slurp(1)