A tool to capture a screenshot, optionally crop it, then upload it, and finally copy it's url to the clipboard. Based on ShareX's workflow. Keybindings are bound with xbindkeys. Uses scrot to actually capture the screen. If the captureregion script/key is used, it then sends it to a fullscreen window made with qt/qml with a magnifier. Finally it uploads the screenshot to imgur with a python script, displaying a notification with a thumbnail preview and copies the uploaded images url to the clipboard.

Note this needs v1.1.9 of imgurpython from https://github.com/BryanH/imgurpython, the deprecated v1.1.7 shipped with pip3 install imgurpython is out of date.

sudo apt-get install xbindkeys scrot python3 python3-pip qt5-qmake qtdeclarative5-dev
git clone https://github.com/Zren/nixshot
cd nixshot
sh ./install
cat ./.xbindkeysrc >> ~/.xbindkeysrc
killall xbindkeys
xbindkeys

To login to imgur, you'll need to run a script we just installed. If ~/bin didn't already exist you might need to restart bash first to reload $PATH, or use the full path to call it.

uploadscreenshot

The above will give you a url to visit to obtain a pin. You then enter the pin code with:

uploadscreenshot -p CODEHERE

It will create a new file ~/.nixshotrc with your credentials. Another file called .nixshot.log will also be created later with the imgur responses.

You can change these by modifying ~/.xbindkeysrc then running xbindkeys to apply them.

• PrintScreen Capture screen
• Ctrl + PrintScreen Capture region

Click + drag to crop. Press Esc to quit without uploading the screenshot.