Keyboard shortcuts

Press ← or → to navigate between chapters

Press S or / to search in the book

Press ? to show this help

Press Esc to hide this help

Capture

Wayscriber includes fast screenshot capture tools that can save to file and/or clipboard.

Dependencies

Capture uses wl-clipboard, grim, and slurp for best results. If you build from source or use the tarball, install them as listed in the Installation guide (Build from source section).

If these are missing, Wayscriber falls back to xdg-desktop-portal. GNOME freeze uses the screenshot portal when available; the first use may show a desktop permission prompt and can be slower than compositor screencopy.

On wlroots compositors, freeze and zoom use the shared-memory screencopy path. If capture features fail on a newer Sway/wlroots stack, update Wayscriber first; current builds avoid the dmabuf-only screencopy path that older builds could not consume.

Default capture keys

  • Full screen: Ctrl+Shift+P
  • Active window (Hyprland only): Ctrl+Shift+O
  • Selection: Ctrl+Shift+I

Clipboard and file variants

  • Clipboard full screen: Ctrl+C
  • File full screen: Ctrl+S
  • Clipboard selection: Ctrl+Shift+C
  • File selection: Ctrl+Shift+S
  • Clipboard region: Ctrl+6
  • File region: Ctrl+Alt+6
  • Open capture folder: Ctrl+Alt+O