XPrtSc

Minimal screenshot/print screen program for X11

The output format is ppm. Conversion to your favourite format can be done using your favourite image converter (e.g. ffmpeg).

Inspired/Modified from sxot (https://codeberg.org/NRK/sxot).

Installation

Linux

With Make

$ make
$ make clean install

Without Make

$ cc -o nob nob.c
$ ./nob
$ ./nob clean install

Other OSes

Good luck!

Usage

Printing to STDOUT

$ xprtsc

Saving to a file

$ xprtsc > file.ppm

Converting with FFmpeg

$ xprtsc | ffmpeg -i - file.png