Unable to capture any moving images

[thebitstick]

Is there any way of freezing the screen and then being able to select from that?
Having to pause a video in order to select a portion of it is getting somewhat of a hassle.

[naelstrof]

That's not the purpose of slop or maim, you can easily accomplish this by actually taking a photo of the screen and editing it later.

Alternatively you can jerry-rig this with an image viewer, maim, and slop. Take a full screen picture, open it in a full-screen image viewer, then take a cropped picture.

I'll leave this issue open until someone posts a neato script that does that.

[naelstrof]

I've put together a one-liner for this
maim | feh - -x & maim -s cropped.png
You'll need the new maim and slop, but it does as intended.