shmooz

Zoom, annotate, and capture the current Wayland view.

shmooz is a Wayland presentation and screenshot tool. It lets you zoom into an output, add simple annotations, dim the rest of the screen with a spotlight, and save or copy exactly what is visible.

Screenshots

• Zoom

• Spotlight

• Annotation

Features

• Zoom and pan the current output.
• Toggle a spotlight around the pointer.
• Annotate with pen, highlighter, line, rectangle, ellipse, text, and move tools.
• Pick from a shared annotation color palette and adjust text size while annotating.
• Save the visible view as a screenshot or copy it to the Wayland clipboard.

Usage

shmooz [options...]

Options

• -h, --help - Show help and exit
• --map-close KEY - Set the close key
• --output NAME - Use a specific output
• --zoom-in PERCENT - Start zoomed in
• --invert-scroll - Invert scroll direction
• --spotlight - Start with spotlight enabled
• --screenshot-dir DIR - Set the screenshot directory
• --no-indicator - Hide the on-screen indicator

Controls

Navigation

• Scroll - Zoom at the pointer
• Left drag - Pan
• + / - - Zoom at screen center
• Arrow keys - Pan
• 0 - Reset view
• f - Toggle spotlight
• Right click - Exit
• Double click - Reset view

Annotation

• d - Draw on the current zoomed view
• w - Draw on the full view
• p / h / l / r / e - Select pen, highlighter, line, rectangle, or ellipse
• t - Toggle text mode
• m - Toggle move mode
• Left drag - Draw or move the selected annotation
• Left click - Place text
• 1-0, -, = - Select one of 12 annotation colors
• [ / ] - Change text size while annotating, or spotlight radius while navigating
• Enter - Commit text
• Backspace - Delete the last text character
• u - Undo
• c - Clear annotations on the focused output
• Esc - Leave text or move mode, then leave annotation mode

Examples

# Start with a small zoom
shmooz --zoom-in 10%

# Run on one output
shmooz --output DP-1

# Start with spotlight enabled
shmooz --spotlight --zoom-in 25%

# Save screenshots elsewhere
shmooz --screenshot-dir /tmp/shmooz-shots

Install

Build from source with Cargo, or install from the AUR on Arch.

Configure

Example sway binding:

bindsym $super+Control+Backspace exec pgrep shmooz && killall shmooz || shmooz --zoom-in 10% --output "$(swaymsg -t get_outputs | jq -r 'map(select(.focused == true)) | .[].name')"

Build

cargo build

Run directly:

cargo run -- --help

Or use the Makefile target from the repository root:

make -C build shmooz

Acknowledgement

Inspired by wooz.

License

Apache-2.0.