./graphics/scrot, Command line screen capture util like import, but using imlib2

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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 2.0.0, Package name: scrot-2.0.0, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

scrot (SCReenshOT) is a simple command line screen capture
utility that uses imlib2 to grab and save images. Multiple
image formats are supported through imlib2's dynamic saver
modules.


Required to run:
[devel/giblib] [x11/Xfixes] [x11/xcursor]

Required to build:
[pkgtools/x11-links] [x11/fixesproto4] [pkgtools/cwrappers] [x11/xorgproto]

Master sites:

Filesize: 183.102 KB

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   2026-03-28 09:53:54 by Tobias Nygren | Files touched by this commit (1)
Log message:
scrot: needs libXrandr
   2026-03-26 05:34:28 by pin | Files touched by this commit (3) | Package updated
Log message:
graphics/scrot: update to 2.0.0

 - Fixes: --line mode=edge glitches under compositors (#423).
 - Fixes: Selection border getting into the screenshot with --freeze (#409).
 - Fixes: Ringing the bell after taking screenshot (#413).
 - Fixes: Mutually exclusive zsh completion (#415).
 - Improvement: Use Xrandr instead of Xinerama for monitor capture (#406).
 - Improvement: Default line width is derived from the display DPI (#420).
 - Improvement: Install zsh and bash completion by default (#415).
 - Document: Correct description of $f and $m format specifier (#419).
 - Document: Correct image magick example (#414).
 - Document: Minimum required version for the required libraries (#420).
 - Removed: --note and --script options (#420).
 - Upgrade: Upgrade minimum requiring Imlib2 version to 1.11.0 (#420).
   2025-04-06 16:51:49 by pin | Files touched by this commit (2) | Package updated
Log message:
graphics/scrot: update to 1.12.1

Wed Apr 02 12:25:52 -03:00 2025  Joao Eriberto Mota Filho \ 
<eriberto@eriberto.pro.br>
Version 1.12.1

 [ NRK ] alias @N-R-K

 * Fixes: Do no default to --line mode=edge if --freeze is also specified
   since that combination can lead to artifacts (#408).
 * Document: Correct description of edge mode regarding -f flag.

Tue Mar 25 22:52:44 -03:00 2025  Joao Eriberto Mota Filho \ 
<eriberto@eriberto.pro.br>
Version 1.12

 [ 7xnl ]

 * New feature: Allow cancelling selection by pressing alternate button.

 [ NRK ] alias @N-R-K

 * Fixes: Racy behavior of --freeze where the screenshot was different than
   the content it was frozen on (#381).
 * Fixes: Hanging when invoked with a button pressed (#389).
 * Fixes: Certain visual glitches with selection when run under
   a compositor (#387).
 * Document: Correct description of -m in help string.

 [ k4gi@pm.me ]

 * Document: Formatting of -u in manpage.

 [ Vitaly Zdanevich ]

 * Document: Clarify "other" formats in the README.
   2025-01-21 12:00:19 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (80)
Log message:
*: Drop maintainership.
   2024-08-01 08:44:23 by pin | Files touched by this commit (4) | Package updated
Log message:
graphics/scrot: update to 1.11.1

1.11.1
 - Minor fix in Makefile.am

1.11
 - New feature: zsh and bash completion
 - Improvement: more detailed --help output and new --list-options flag
 - Improvement: better error reporting on newer imlib2 versions
 - Improvement: better handle mutually exclusive options
 - Improvement: --stack no longer errors out if no compositor is running
 - Improvement: print a warning if output file was changed
 - Improvement: default file-name extension is now based on the format used
 - Improvement: selection line mode will be automatically set to \ 
"edge" mode if no compositors is running
 - Improvement: rewrite autogen.sh to be simpler and more robust
 - Document: add examples of using scrot with other utilities in manpage
 - Document: Correct strftime section in the manual
 - Fixes: selection borders appearing in the screenshot
 - Fixes: reject filenames with trailing slash
 - Fixes: incorrect line opacity mapping
 - Fixes: don't return 0 on exec failure
 - Fixes: bad extension detection
 - Fixes: stricter optional argument parsing
 - Fixes: buffer overrun due to bad x,y in imlib_create_image_from_ximage call
 - Fixes: printing potentially truncated file-size
 - Fixes: various memory leaks
 - Fixes: replace dprintf() calls to fix the SmartOS port
   2023-11-12 14:24:43 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2569)
Log message:
*: revebump for new brotli option for freetype2

Addresses PR 57693
   2023-07-04 17:05:20 by Jonathan Perkin | Files touched by this commit (2)
Log message:
scrot: Pull in upstream fix for lack of dprintf().
   2023-07-03 13:29:04 by Paolo Vincenzo Olivo | Files touched by this commit (9)
Log message:
*: Recursive revbump from devel/libmd

This affects all packages requiring libbsd/libmd
on Linux.