wayshot: External Montior Not Detected

My understanding is that the default command wayshot should take a full screenshot of the active monitor. When I have my external monitor selected it still defaults to my laptop’s screen.

❯ uname -a
Linux baalsecundus 5.16.11-zen1-1-zen #1 ZEN SMP PREEMPT Thu, 24 Feb 2022 02:18:22 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux
❯ paru -Qs "river-git|wlroots-15|wayshot-git"
local/river-git 0.1.0.r49.ge67a942-1
    A dynamic tiling wayland compositor.
local/wayshot-git 1.1.5.64.g02c5041-1
    A screenshot tool for wlroots compositors.
local/wlroots-15 0.15.0.r.-1
    Modular Wayland compositor library (git version)

2022-02-26T11:22:05,378128712-07:00

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 2 years ago
Comments: 19 (13 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

[Feat] Multi-output composited screenshots Closes: https://github.com/waycrate/wayshot/issues/7 Closes: https://github.com/waycrate/wayshot/issues/8 Supercedes: https://github.com/waycrate/wayshot/pu... — committed to waycrate/wayshot by Shinyzenith a year ago
[Feat] Multi-output composited screenshots Closes: https://github.com/waycrate/wayshot/issues/7 Closes: https://github.com/waycrate/wayshot/issues/8 Supercedes: https://github.com/waycrate/wayshot/pu... — committed to waycrate/wayshot by Shinyzenith a year ago
wayshot: Removed test script, it didn't work. More info: https://github.com/waycrate/wayshot/issues/7 This reverts commit 199892f6e4c5c7905d814640decaad08d1545fe6. — committed to applejag/dotfiles by applejag 2 years ago

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Hi I have developed a fix for this @tpeacock19 The current implementation is a little messy so after some cleanup it should be in master branch

Shinyzenith on Mar 11, 2022

@uncomfyhalomacro Yes, I’m aware that sway uses swaymsg and river will not allow for clients to access that information (see https://github.com/riverwm/river/issues/542). I’ve been trying to decipher wlr-screencopy-unstable-v1 but I don’t have enough experience.

For now I’ve just settled on passing a geometry that will capture the primary view in River, based on the currently active monitor.

@Shinyzenith @angelofallars @EdenQwQ maybe adding a utility that acts like swaymsg in river will probably help solve that issue. or we can wait i guess for wlroots to have that feature added. or if brave enough, learn C, and have fun adding that in wlroots. 🤔 but im no expert in C so 😢

EDIT: I mentioned the latter because of this https://github.com/riverwm/river/issues/542#issuecomment-1044170411. In my opinion, it does make sense because that will defeat the purpose of using Wayland. So waiting for wlroots to add that patch or add that patch yourself is the most sensible thing to do

Only actual way is PR which extends screenshoting protocol.

heavyrain266 on Feb 27, 2022