Samurai Select

A screen selection tool for wayland compositors using the layer shell. I thank slurp for teaching me how to use the layer shell and for showing an approach to creating a screen selection tool.

Features

• Customizable (colors, sizes, fonts etc.)
• Screen Freeze (-z flag)
• Screenshot (-s flag)
• Execute arbitrary command (--cmd flag), usable when freezing screen
• Show Coordinates and Dimensions (-t flag)
• Alter selection after performing an initial selection (-A flag)
• Touch Support (needs testing)
• Force aspect ratio (-a flag)
• Select certain regions of screen (e.g. windows) (-r flag)
  • Hyprland support (-r hyprland)
  • Sway support (-r sway)
  • Arbitrary (via argument) (-r arg -R 'X,Y WxH X1,Y1 W1xH1 ...')
• Select whole outputs (-p flag)

Install

Arch Linux (AUR)

This program is available through the AUR, you can install it using an AUR helper like yay:

yay -S samurai-select

or manually:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/samurai-select-git
cd samurai-select
makepkg -si

Everything Else

If you have the dependencies listed under Build installed you can just install this program without having the source code by calling

go install github.com/Samudevv/samurai-select@latest
ln -s $GOPATH/bin/samurai-select $GOPATH/bin/smel

Build

To build it you need to have a go compiler, C compiler (for cgo) and the following dependencies installed:

• Wayland Client Library
• Cairo

On Arch Linux you can install these dependencies like so:

sudo pacman -S --needed go gcc wayland cairo

Then call this to build it:

go build -v

Or this to install it:

go install -v

To build the man page:

1. Install scdoc and gzip
2. Execute:

scdoc < manpage.scd | gzip -c > samurai-select.1.gz

3. View it:

man -l samurai-select.1.gz