From 3e46228da15fb992c9da4eb7be1748d254a96312 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ktyl <me@ktyl.dev>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2022 13:34:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add screenshot script

---
 .scripts/ss | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 .scripts/ss

diff --git a/.scripts/ss b/.scripts/ss
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..316de92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.scripts/ss
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# take a screenshot of a region selected by the cursor and copy it to the clipboard
+# using maim and xclip
+
+# accept all passed arguments and pass them to maim
+maimflags="$@"
+
+dir="$(xdg-user-dir PICTURES)/ss"
+file="$dir/$(date +%s).png"
+
+# create screenshot dir if it doesn't exist
+[ -d $dir ] || mkdir -p $dir
+
+# save screenshot to a file with a unique ordered timestamp
+maim $maimflags $file
+
+# copy the file to the clipboard
+xclip -selection clipboard -target image/png $file