Automated screenshot + drop at mouse click location

[axgkl]

Hi, thanks for dragon.
No issue here just a note: This is may be of use for someone else as well (just realized I got a few points at SO for it, so why not share):

Function: Hotkey to start script -> select area -> click into drop area. Done.

It uses scrot to make a screenshot of a selected area, then dragon, to create a drag window top left, then xdotool to click and drag that to the point where you click.

Here the script

2.bin$ cat drag_into
#!/usr/bin/env bash
doc="$0 <filename|'shot'>

Drags a given file to where the mouse is using dragon. Click to drop it (anywere).
If filename is 'shot' then the file will be a shot of a an area to be selected
(i.e. ideal to be triggered by a hotkey).
"

cmd_shot="shot"
file=

exit_help () { echo -e "$doc"; exit 1; }

select_shot_area () {
    # create screen shot
    notify-send "Select area - we'll shoot it and drag to where the mouse is."
    cd "$HOME/Pictures/shots/" || exit 1
    rm -f "latest.png"
    scrot -s '%Y-%m-%d_$wx$h_scrot.png' -e 'ln -s $f latest.png'
    file="`readlink latest.png`"
}

main () {
    file="$1"
    test -z "$file" -o "$file" == "-h" && exit_help
    eval "$(xdotool getmouselocation --shell)" # into $X and $Y
    test "$file" == "$cmd_shot" && { select_shot_area || return 1; }
    killall dragon 2>/dev/null # No accidential drops of wrong items ...
    dragon --and-exit "$file" &
    while true; do
        xid="$(xdotool search --onlyvisible --class  dragon | head -n 2)"
        test -z "$xid" || break
        sleep 0.05
    done
    xdotool mousemove --sync -w "$xid" 1 1 mousedown 1 mousemove $X $Y
    notify-send "Click to drop $file..."
}

main "$@"

[mwh]

Closing this to tidy the open issues list, but it's pretty neat as a script.

[axgkl]

right, should have closed myself.
Thanks again for dragon, our IT landscape meanwhile keeps me using it bascially all the time :-)