# ScreenGrab
## Overview
An application for creating screenshots. ScreenGrab uses the Qt framework and thus,
it is independent from any desktop environment.
## Features
* Screenshot of screen area, window, fullscreen and last selected area
* Delay
* Edit directly in other applications
* Automatic saving; insert date+time in filename
* Fit to edges by right click
* Custom shortcuts
## Installation
### Compiling source code
#### Build requirements
* Qt5 >= 5.15
* CMake >= 3.1.0 (only for building ScreenGrab from sources)
* GCC > 4.5
* KF5WindowSystem
* [lxqt-build-tools](https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt-build-tools)
* [libqtxdg](https://github.com/lxqt/libqtxdg/)(if compiled with the ability to edit screenshots in external apps, which is the case by default)
To build ScreenGrab from sources, use these commands:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake [BUILD OPTIONS] ../
make
make install
#### Build options
You can use some or all of these parameters to customise your build.
* **-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX** - Install prefix for Linux distro. Default setting: "/usr".
* **-DSG_XDG_CONFIG_SUPPORT** - Place config files into XDGC_CONFIG_HOME directory
(usually - ~/.config/${app_name) ). Default setting: ON. In previous versions the
config files were stored in ~/.screengrab (Set this parameter to "OFF" to store the config files here).
* **-DSG_EXT_UPLOADS** - Enable uploading screenshots to image hosting services. Default setting: ON.
* **-DSG_DBUS_NOTIFY** - Enable D-Bus notifications.
* **-DSG_GLOBALSHORTCUTS** - Enable global shortcuts for main actions to create screenshots. Default setting: ON.
* **-DSG_USE_SYSTEM_QXT** - Use system version Qxt Library for global shortcuts. Default setting: OFF.
* **-DSG_DOCDIR** - Name for the directory of user's documentation. Default setting: "screengrab".
Dfault setting: OFF.
* **-DDEV_VERSION** - Set a dev-version here, maybe git describe $foo. Default not set.
#### Build notes
For Debian based Linux distributions please use the distribution build tools. One can get the source-code with
```
apt source screengrab # Sources for the released package
- or -
git clone https://salsa.debian.org/lxqt-team/screengrab
```
Build with the tools provided by `devscripts` or better with `pbuilder` or `sbuild`
### Binary packages
Official binary packages are available in all major distributions. Just use the distributions'
package manager to search for string 'screengrab'.
## LICENSE
Screengrab is licensed under the GPL v2. See file LICENSE in docs directory for more information
## Copyright
(c) 2014-2022, LXQt Project
(c) 2009-2013, Artem 'DOOMer' Galichkin
## Translation
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