--- title: Wayland Compatible Annotated Screenshots with slurp,... description: A practical guide to setting up screenshot capture and annotation on Wayland using three tools: slurp for region selection, grim for screen capture, and satty... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/wayland-compatible-annotated-screenshots-with-slurp-grim-and-satty-nick-janetakis-qzntuihdl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Wayland Compatible Annotated Screenshots with slurp, grim and satty — Nick Janetakis | daily.dev og:description: A practical guide to setting up screenshot capture and annotation on Wayland using three tools: slurp for region selection, grim for screen capture, and satty... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/wayland-compatible-annotated-screenshots-with-slurp-grim-and-satty-nick-janetakis-qzntuihdl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/qZnTUihDl.png og:image:alt: Wayland Compatible Annotated Screenshots with slurp, grim and satty — Nick Janetakis og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Wayland Compatible Annotated Screenshots with slurp, grim and satty — Nick Janetakis **[Nick Janetakis](https://daily.dev/sources/nickjanetakis)** · 3 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A practical guide to setting up screenshot capture and annotation on Wayland using three tools: slurp for region selection, grim for screen capture, and satty for annotation and cropping. The solution supports capturing regions, specific windows, individual monitors, or all monitors, with results copied to clipboard or saved to disk. A shell script glues the tools together and can be bound to keyboard shortcuts in Wayland compositors like niri. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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