Question: why prefer maim over scrot?

[hiqua]

The README says:

It's meant to overcome shortcomings of scrot and performs better in several ways.

but I couldn't find details about that. Would it be possible to expand the README so that scrot users (like me) know why they should change?

Thanks!

[foxpy]

You are probably one of those lucky people who don't have a bug in scrot when selection border gets into screenshot (or maybe you just don't use the selection feature at all).

Also, you should never change your software if you are satisfied with whatever software you currently use. If scrot works great — I don't suggest switching to maim. For me, that scrot selection bug was a crucial reason to switch to maim.

There are sure even more differences between maim and scrot, e.g. maim supports webp (relatively new image format which is still not well understood by a lot of software), OpenGL selection with fancy shaders, and probably something else (?).

[foxpy]

Also this issue probably means we should expand README to elaborate a little bit about key differences between maim and scrot?

[hiqua]

Also this issue probably means we should expand README to elaborate a little bit about key differences between maim and scrot?

Thanks for the answer. That'd be great!

No I don't have the selection border bug. I could use webp, eventually.

[Goosegit11]

selection bug is fixable by passing --freeze option to scrot

and in maim we don't even have that option..
so yeah, for now if you like freeze feature - use scrot, if you don't - use maim