r/linux • • 1d ago

Popular Application Waytator - screenshot and screenrecord on Wayland (GTK+C)

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if you find satty ugly like I do (no offense), try https://github.com/faetalize/waytator

It's basically an all encompassing screenshot tool - started out as merely an annotator, but expanded in scope recently :p

Not sure if it matters to anyone, but this app is AI-free, (I'm not anti, but I'm working on this to practice on my C)

Standout features:

  1. Based on GTK4, but fast - sub 70ms launch from cold, so no need for a daemon (lots of pain to get this, GTK is annoying as hell)
  2. Sleek design, fits in any WM, blurrrrrrr
  3. More than just for annotating screenshots - you can use waytator to take screenshots directly, either from the gui or from the cli (try binding to `waytator --screenshot --notify`
  4. Hyper configurable. Almost everything can be rebound
  5. OCR and text extraction (optional tessaract dependency)
  6. can be piped into if you prefer to use your WM's screenshot tool
  7. Planned, coming soon: screen/area recording, GPU accelerated video editing.
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u/Daell 1d ago

The UI looks good, but I dislike annotating tools where I have to take my screenshot with extra padding because of the annotating tool's widgets are overlapping the most important part, the content.

And yes, ironically I still use satty.