Anchor Shell Screenshot

Labwc screenshot selection is split between this plugin and the compatibility scripts in modules/labwc/labwc/scripts/:

• Service.qml captures each output with grim, waits for all captures to finish, then opens a frozen selection layer for each screen.
• FrozenSurface.qml displays the saved frame, dims the area outside the selection, and sends the selected crop to omarchy-capture-frozen.
• omarchy-capture-screenshot starts the frozen selector for interactive modes. The helper currently saves the crop under Pictures and copies it to the clipboard.

Current selection controls

The Shift constraint is applied while the key is held and released immediately when Shift is released. The square grows from the initial pointer position and is clamped to the current display edges. This restores the modifier behavior that the previous slurp picker provided. The local slurp package is 1.5.0; its keyboard controls document Shift as a temporary 1:1 aspect-ratio lock when no fixed aspect ratio was requested: slurp(1). Press Print first, then hold Shift while dragging. Shift+Print remains the separate delayed-fullscreen shortcut.

The Screen Recording bar menu also provides Capture a free area and Capture entire display. Both close the menu before capture. The first opens the frozen selector; the second captures the display containing the indicator and copies its PNG to the clipboard, including when no application window is open.

Previous Labwc shortcuts and behavior

These are the bindings in modules/labwc/labwc/rc.xml and the matching keybind-profile template:

While the old selector was open, Esc cancelled selection, Space moved the current rectangle, and Shift temporarily locked it to a square. The installed omarchy-capture-region maps smart, region, and windows to plain slurp, so those mode names did not provide separate smart or window-snapping behavior.

Other capture utilities remain separate scripts:

• omarchy-capture-text: select a region, OCR it, and copy the text.
• omarchy-capture-qr: select a region, decode a QR code, and copy the result.
• omarchy-capture-screenrecording: record a selected region or the full screen, with optional audio flags.
• omarchy-delayed-screenshot: wait before starting a region or fullscreen screenshot.

Differences to consider

The frozen picker currently adds a stable captured frame, a dimmed outside area, and selection on each output. Apart from the Shift square constraint and Esc cancellation, it does not yet restore the old Space-to-move behavior or the distinct shortcut output modes. All interactive modes currently use the same frozen picker and save-plus-copy result; mode names and the requested copy/save processing mode are not passed through to the plugin.

The following decisions are intentionally deferred:

1. Restore Space to move an already drawn selection.
2. Preserve each shortcut's save, copy, and delayed-capture behavior.
3. Add window or monitor snapping and keyboard-based window selection.

OCR, QR scanning, and screen recording already have dedicated helpers and do not need to be folded into the screenshot selector. The above list records possible follow-up work; it does not imply those features are implemented.