Thingshare

Thingshare can share screenshots and your clipboard with others by uploading the files to sharing services and placing the share URL in your clipboard.

For example, you can set a keyboard shortcut in your desktop environment to tell Thingshare to select a region on your screen to screenshot. The screenshot will be uploaded automatically and a share URL placed in your clipboard.

Features

• Interactively create and upload region screenshots (using Flameshot).
• Create and upload screenshots of the active window, active display, or full desktop (using scrot).
• Upload files or data directly from the clipboard.
• Supported file share services:
  • Seafile

Building / Installing

With Nix

Run:

$ git clone https://github.com/beskhue/thingshare.git
$ cd thingshare
$ nix-env --file default.nix -i

This installs the required dependencies and places Thingshare's executables in your path.

With Nix flakes

Run:

$ git clone https://github.com/beskhue/thingshare.git
$ cd thingshare
$ nix build .#

This places Thingshare's executables in ./result/bin.

Without Nix

Install flameshot and scrot with your favorite package manager.

Other dependencies will be included by default on most Linux distributions. For completeness, these are generally packaged as:

• libnotify
• coreutils
• grep
• curl
• jq
• file
• gawk
• xxd

Grab Thingshare:

$ git clone https://github.com/beskhue/thingshare.git

If you want to, place the files in thingshare/bin in your path.

Usage

Configure Thingshare through ~/.config/thingshare. Create the file if it does not exist. See thingshare/config/thingshare.example for a template.

It is recommended to run thingshare_init on user login using your desktop environment. Starting thingshare_init is required to be able to make region screenshots.

Create and upload region or active window screenshots using:

$ thingshare_screenshot region
$ thingshare_screenshot window
$ thingshare_screenshot display
$ thingshare_screenshot full

Upload your current clipboard using:

$ thingshare_clipboard

It's recommended to create shortcuts for these commands.