Maim
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The facts
Each one read from Maim's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Availability
- The README lists packages for Linux distributions and BSD systems, and recommends installing through a package manager.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Build requirements
- Building requires CMake, glm, and x11proto; libjpeg-turbo, libpng, libwebp, and several X11 libraries are required at build and runtime.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Capture formats
- It saves screenshots in PNG, JPG, or BMP format.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Capture targets
- It can capture predetermined regions or windows, or let a user select a region or window before capture.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Clipboard workflow
- The README shows piping a selected screenshot to xclip to copy it to the clipboard for use in applications such as Mumble, Discord, and GIMP.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Command-line use
- It can pipe screenshots to standard output for command chaining.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Command piping
- It can send screenshots to standard output for command chaining.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Cursor and off-screen pixels
- It can blend the system cursor into screenshots and mask off-screen pixels as transparent or black.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Export formats
- png,jpg,bmp,webpchecked 20 Sep 2026
- Image formats
- It can save screenshots as PNG, JPG, or BMP.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Image processing workflow
- The README gives an example that pipes a window screenshot through ImageMagick to add a shadow effect.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The README gives examples using xclip, ImageMagick, zbarimg, and i3 with maim.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The README describes selecting regions or windows as useful for automation and gives several command-line scripting examples.checked 11 Oct 2026
- License
- The repository identifies its license as GPL-3.0.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Multiple-monitor caveat
- The README says its desktop-overlay-and-crop example does not work well with multiple monitors.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Other command integrations
- The README shows examples using xdotool to capture the active window and zbarimg to decode a selected QR code.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Package availability
- The README lists packages for Linux distributions including Arch, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Alpine, and NixOS, as well as FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Maim takes screenshots of your desktop and is intended as an improved scrot.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Security information
- The repository page shows a Security and quality section, but the opened page provides no security or compliance details.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Selection dependency
- Maim relies on slop to query for regions and supports slop features, including selection shaders.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Regions and windows
- It can capture predetermined regions or windows, or let the user select a region or window before capture.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Supported platforms
- linuxchecked 20 Sep 2026
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