grimshot: init at 2020-05-08

[evils]

Motivation for this change

screenshot tool for sway from sway
this seems like a better solution than copying over snippets to my sway config

Though a different solution was suggested and implemented there, this closes #88577

Things done

• Tested using sandboxing (nix.useSandbox on NixOS, or option sandbox in nix.conf on non-NixOS linux)
• Built on platform(s)
  • NixOS
  • macOS
  • other Linux distributions
• Tested via one or more NixOS test(s) if existing and applicable for the change (look inside nixos/tests)
• Tested compilation of all pkgs that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review wip"
• Tested execution of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
• Determined the impact on package closure size (by running nix path-info -S before and after)
  • 101551232
• Ensured that relevant documentation is up to date
• Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

Stuff

ping @primeos since i only saw #76787 now
it seems like the dependencies of the other contrib/ stuff are somewhat different
perhaps this could be added as sway.contrib.grimshot with a link to it in all-packages.nix?

having a separate description for this should improve discoverability

[primeos]

I once looked into this but seem to have forgotten about it or dropped it for some reason. My plan was to add a package sway-contrib with all scripts from the contrib directory. I just pushed the latest version I could find here: primeos@2b079e5
Could you have a look at this and maybe finish it (IIRC I never tested it and some dependencies are most likely still missing)? Feel free to use --reset-author on my existing commit ;)

Edit: Ideally all scripts should work with nix-shell --pure (forgot to mention that :o).

[primeos]

Are there major issues with grimshot from Sway 1.4?

[evils]

there were a bunch of improvements 2 weeks ago
a man page was also added

[primeos]

That's a bit unfortunate, seems like there are too many commits to cherry-pick them into sway-unwrapped. But ideally we'd still use 1.4 then as long as it works.

[evils]

i'd really miss the "manually select window to screenshot" function
and i think the man page is a really nice thing
ofc, if 1.5 gets released we can switch to that

[evils]

i suppose i could switch to downloading just the 2 files i'm using

[evils]

done

[evils]

i'm not familiar with autoname-workspaces.py and inactive-windows-transparency.py
but they sound unrelated to screenshotting and i don't think it's a bad idea to keep the python stuff separate

[evils]

this still fails in nix-shell --pure due to missing some context

failure output

error: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set in the environment.
failed to create display
error: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set in the environment.
Failed to connect to a Wayland server
error: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set in the environment.
failed to create display
Error: Clipboard error

i'm not sure if this is avoidable though

[primeos]

I've just opened #87979 to reach a consensus regarding the packaging.