## Your phone is a great tool to take pictures, we all know that... but **please, don't use a phone to take a picture of your monitor**

Your non-orthogonal angle is pain to look at, the text is blurry, the lighting is just messed up. If you want help, make us want to help you. Make our lives easier.

Besides, it's not even that hard to take screenshots. And you can usually just paste them in, without having to pick up your phone to send the message on whatever platform you're working on.

# Windows
- Windows has a built-in Snippet Tool. Pin it to your hotbar, or use `<Logo key>+<Shift>+<S>`.
- Use the `<PrintScreen>` button on your keyboard. If your laptop doesn't have this button, you may use `<Fn>+<Logo Key>+<Spacebar>` instead.
- Install a tool like [ShareX](https://getsharex.com/) which has a bunch of handy customization, including shortcuts to capture regions, windows, and even auto-post to Twitter.

# Linux
Try the `<PrintScreen>` key! Often, this just works.

If it works, also try combining it with `<Shift>` andor `<Ctrl>` to select a region andor output to clipboard instead of `${XDG_PICTURES_DIR:~/Pictures}`

## Xorg / X11 exclusive
- `import` is a command from ImageMagick(1) which saves your whole X11 session to a file. Combine it with xclip and a pipe to copy to clipboard magically.
  - `import - | xclip -selection clipboard -t image/png -`
  - You can define a `-window` to select too, by its name or id
- [Flameshot](https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot) is a great tool with lots of handy drawing tools! It also provides a command-line interface, and support for Imgur.
- [scrot](https://github.com/resurrecting-open-source-projects/scrot) is a simple command which allows saving the screen to a file.
- [maim](https://github.com/naelstrof/maim) is a lightweight tool which overcomes the shortcomings of `scrot`, and may eventually also have (limited) Wayland support ([#67](https://github.com/naelstrof/maim/issues/67#issuecomment-371986576)). It can save to files, and copy to clipboard through pipes (see below).

## Wayland exclusive
- [grim](https://github.com/emersion/grim) on Linux is a modular and intuitive tool to take screenshots of regions of the screen.
  - Plays well together with [slurp](https://github.com/emersion/slurp), and can output to both files and the standard output.
  - `grim -g "$(slurp)" - | wl-copy`
  - Instead of using `$(slurp)`, you may want to use [this script to select a window by clicking on it](https://github.com/mazunki/scripts/blob/main/wl-select) or [this one to select the active ones](https://github.com/mazunki/scripts/blob/main/wl-select-active). Read their documentation to learn to use them.


# MacOS
Who knows?