Capture Modes

shotdock provides CLI commands for all capture operations.

1. Area Snip (with Window Snapping)

Interactive selection via slurp. Drag a rectangular box or click on any window to select it:

shotdock -a

Saves the capture to disk and copies it to the Wayland clipboard.

2. Screen Freeze Selection

Freezes screen content during selection using hyprpicker:

shotdock -a --freeze
# or
shotdock -z

3. Window & Region Framing

Captures a window or region and applies 16px rounded corners, Gaussian drop shadow, window titlebar, and canvas background:

shotdock -w

4. Focused Monitor

Captures the currently focused monitor:

shotdock -f

5. All Connected Monitors

Captures a full desktop span across all monitors:

shotdock -p
# or
shotdock --all

6. OCR Text Extraction

Extracts text from a selected area to the clipboard using Tesseract:

shotdock -t

Modifier Flags

Examples

# Snip and open in editor
shotdock -a -e

# Framed capture without shadow
shotdock -w --no-shadow

# Framed capture without titlebar
shotdock -w --no-titlebar

Floating Dock

Run shotdock without arguments to open the GTK4 LayerShell dock:

shotdock

• Escape: Close dock
• Enter: Trigger capture for active mode
• Click buttons to trigger actions or click gear icon for settings popover