shotdock

Wayland screenshot and screen recording tool with window framing and an optional floating dock.

Supports Hyprland, Sway, River, Niri, and other Wayland compositors.

Showcase

Canvas Background	Window Framing	Floating Dock

Features

• Area & Window Snip: Interactive region selection with window snapping (slurp).
• Window Framing: Rounded corners, Gaussian drop shadow, macOS-style titlebar, and gradient canvas backdrops.
• Offline Framing: Frame existing image files via shotdock frame <file>.
• Screen Freeze: Freeze screen content during area selection (hyprpicker).
• Screen Recording: 60 FPS H.264 video recording with monitor, window, or region selector (wf-recorder).
• OCR Text Extraction: Extract text from screen directly to Wayland clipboard (tesseract).
• Optional Floating Dock: GTK4 LayerShell toolbar for quick visual access.

Quick Start

Installation

yay -S shotdock

CLI Capture

# Snip region or click window
shotdock -a

# Capture window or region with framing
shotdock -w

# Capture focused monitor
shotdock -f

# Extract text to clipboard (OCR)
shotdock -t

# Toggle screen recording
shotdock -r