r/linux • u/sharanoth • 1d ago
Popular Application Waytator - screenshot and screenrecord on Wayland (GTK+C)
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:
- 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)
- Sleek design, fits in any WM, blurrrrrrr
- 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`
- Hyper configurable. Almost everything can be rebound
- OCR and text extraction (optional tessaract dependency)
- can be piped into if you prefer to use your WM's screenshot tool
- 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.