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345 points splitbrain | 10 comments | 14 Oct 24 13:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.485s | source | bottom
1. z991 ◴[14 Oct 24 13:54 UTC] No.41837564[source]▶
Wow, this is fantastic! This exact use case, on Linux, is why our company selected Zoom instead of Meet.

Awesome!

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2. z991 ◴[14 Oct 24 14:03 UTC] No.41837644[source]▶
Built it and took a fullscreen screenshot with GIMP to figure out the width/height/x/y coordinates I wanted and tested with Google Meet. Working perfectly!
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3. machinestops ◴[14 Oct 24 14:07 UTC] No.41837667[source]▶
https://github.com/naelstrof/slop Can also use a utility like this one, which lets you select an area of the screen and output it in a specified format.
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4. z991 ◴[14 Oct 24 14:37 UTC] No.41837959{3}[source]▶
Wow that is also very cool. For those wondering, this is what it looks like:

  $ sudo apt install slop
  $ slop
       <selects an area on screen>
  1719x1403+1080+277
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5. machinestops ◴[14 Oct 24 15:37 UTC] No.41838524{4}[source]▶
Putting the two together is easy too:

$ clipscreen $(slop -F "%x %y %w %h")

NB. The lack of quotes around $() enables wordsplitting to occur.

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6. samwhiteUK ◴[14 Oct 24 17:13 UTC] No.41839576{5}[source]▶
Or

$ clipscreen $(slop | tr -s "+x" " ")

7. Narishma ◴[14 Oct 24 17:18 UTC] No.41839625{5}[source]▶
I think you got the size and position switched.
8. hackernewds ◴[14 Oct 24 17:28 UTC] No.41839720[source]▶
Did you have any issues implementing?
9. hackernewds ◴[14 Oct 24 17:30 UTC] No.41839733{3}[source]▶
this is just cmd+shift+5 in a Mac OS
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10. yjftsjthsd-h ◴[14 Oct 24 18:39 UTC] No.41840502{4}[source]▶
Is it? I thought that took a screenshot, not fed coordinates to a program (in this case a screen sharing program)