Maim
Dev tools
screenshot utility
SHOW HN2014
How HN took it
8 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 22 comments about the project. Thread score +0.15.
Idea: 5 for, 0 againstDocs: 2 for, 1 againstPerformance: 1 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Readme explains why it differs from other tools
From 1 comment
Great readme explaining why to use this over scrot (the tool I use atm) and others. An improved render rectangle was the first item I checked for (saw this mentioned in slop).…
peterlvilim on HN
Clean capture without selection borders, drop-in for scrot -s
From 1 comment
Yay, a drop-in replacement for scrot -s that doesn't leave selection borders in the screenshot every time.
ben0x539 on HN
Objections
Selection tool slop is slow to respond
From 1 comment
Yes, sure. I don't think of program being unable to do something as an improvement, whatever philosophy might it be and I haven't experienced any glitches with scrot. More than…
krick on HN
No built-in exec or naming features, handled by shell instead
From 1 comment
> maim has no --exec or naming features. This is because maim follows the unix philosophy of "do one thing and do it well". These features are things that should be handled by…
masklinn on HN
Cursor capture claim was wrong since GUI tools already do it
From 1 comment
This looks pretty slick. But "no other screenshooter can capture the mouse pointer" is flat out wrong. gnome-capture comes with Ubuntu/Debian and has options not only to…
couchand on HN
Requests
Install instructions in the readme
From 1 comment
How do you install it?
willemmerson on HN
Compiled binaries for 32-bit Ubuntu
From 1 comment
Shared it here: http://tuxdiary.com/2014/10/17/maim-slop/ Can anyone please share the compiled binaries on 32-bit Ubuntu 14.04?
dazzledpenguin on HN
Questions
How to install it
From 1 comment
How do you install it?
willemmerson on HN
Why it is written in C rather than C++
From 1 comment
Could you please share why you wrote the cmd line interface in C instead of using C++ ? Just for convenience ? EDIT: Fix text.
lmedinas on HN
Alternatives named
Shutter
From 2 comments
Looks nice, other good screencapture applications for Linux would be fx Shutter, http://shutter-project.org/, also really nice.
tkrill on HNCan't recommend Shutter enough; it's great! It can take a website (gnome-web-photo), full screen or only partial shots; can edit them and has a few handy plugins (censor,…
Nux on HN
KSnapshot
From 1 comment
It looks like a nice tool if you need scripting capabilities. For everyday use I prefer KDE's ksnapshot; mapped on PrintScreen in KDE. It has all the features of maim (minus easy…
andmarios on HN
scrot
From 2 comments
Great readme explaining why to use this over scrot (the tool I use atm) and others. An improved render rectangle was the first item I checked for (saw this mentioned in slop).…
peterlvilim on HNPretty nice, but I only see disadvantages in comparison to scrot. Don't see a reason to switch now.
krick on HN
xfce4-screenshooter
From 1 comment
For a good screenshot utility with a gui, there's xfce4-screenshooter from the xfce desktop suite. It's the bees knees, has the possibility to capture the system cursor (a…
noswi on HN
gnome-screenshot
From 1 comment
I've always used gnome-screenshot as you could use a parameter to get it to add dropped shadows in the same way that Mac OSX does with cmd-shift-4 (spacebar). But I am in the…
72deluxe on HN