./graphics/scrot, Command line screen capture util like import, but using imlib2

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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 1.12.1, Package name: scrot-1.12.1, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

scrot (SCReenshOT) is a simple command line screen capture
utility that uses imlib2 to grab and save images. Multiple
image formats are supported through imlib2's dynamic saver
modules.


Required to run:
[devel/giblib] [x11/Xfixes] [x11/xcursor]

Required to build:
[pkgtools/x11-links] [x11/fixesproto4] [pkgtools/cwrappers] [x11/xorgproto]

Master sites:

Filesize: 178.949 KB

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   2025-04-06 16:51:49 by pin | Files touched by this commit (2) | Package updated
Log message:
graphics/scrot: update to 1.12.1

Wed Apr 02 12:25:52 -03:00 2025  Joao Eriberto Mota Filho \ 
<eriberto@eriberto.pro.br>
Version 1.12.1

 [ NRK ] alias @N-R-K

 * Fixes: Do no default to --line mode=edge if --freeze is also specified
   since that combination can lead to artifacts (#408).
 * Document: Correct description of edge mode regarding -f flag.

Tue Mar 25 22:52:44 -03:00 2025  Joao Eriberto Mota Filho \ 
<eriberto@eriberto.pro.br>
Version 1.12

 [ 7xnl ]

 * New feature: Allow cancelling selection by pressing alternate button.

 [ NRK ] alias @N-R-K

 * Fixes: Racy behavior of --freeze where the screenshot was different than
   the content it was frozen on (#381).
 * Fixes: Hanging when invoked with a button pressed (#389).
 * Fixes: Certain visual glitches with selection when run under
   a compositor (#387).
 * Document: Correct description of -m in help string.

 [ k4gi@pm.me ]

 * Document: Formatting of -u in manpage.

 [ Vitaly Zdanevich ]

 * Document: Clarify "other" formats in the README.
   2025-01-21 12:00:19 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (80)
Log message:
*: Drop maintainership.
   2024-08-01 08:44:23 by pin | Files touched by this commit (4) | Package updated
Log message:
graphics/scrot: update to 1.11.1

1.11.1
 - Minor fix in Makefile.am

1.11
 - New feature: zsh and bash completion
 - Improvement: more detailed --help output and new --list-options flag
 - Improvement: better error reporting on newer imlib2 versions
 - Improvement: better handle mutually exclusive options
 - Improvement: --stack no longer errors out if no compositor is running
 - Improvement: print a warning if output file was changed
 - Improvement: default file-name extension is now based on the format used
 - Improvement: selection line mode will be automatically set to \ 
"edge" mode if no compositors is running
 - Improvement: rewrite autogen.sh to be simpler and more robust
 - Document: add examples of using scrot with other utilities in manpage
 - Document: Correct strftime section in the manual
 - Fixes: selection borders appearing in the screenshot
 - Fixes: reject filenames with trailing slash
 - Fixes: incorrect line opacity mapping
 - Fixes: don't return 0 on exec failure
 - Fixes: bad extension detection
 - Fixes: stricter optional argument parsing
 - Fixes: buffer overrun due to bad x,y in imlib_create_image_from_ximage call
 - Fixes: printing potentially truncated file-size
 - Fixes: various memory leaks
 - Fixes: replace dprintf() calls to fix the SmartOS port
   2023-11-12 14:24:43 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2569)
Log message:
*: revebump for new brotli option for freetype2

Addresses PR 57693
   2023-07-04 17:05:20 by Jonathan Perkin | Files touched by this commit (2)
Log message:
scrot: Pull in upstream fix for lack of dprintf().
   2023-07-03 13:29:04 by Paolo Vincenzo Olivo | Files touched by this commit (9)
Log message:
*: Recursive revbump from devel/libmd

This affects all packages requiring libbsd/libmd
on Linux.
   2023-06-14 19:27:21 by pin | Files touched by this commit (2) | Package updated
Log message:
graphics/scrot: update to 1.10

1.10
 - New option: --compression to specify a compression level. Note that certain
   formats (such as PNG) will now use --compression instead of --quality.
 - Improvement: Timing in scrot --delay.
 - Improvement: Screenshot timestamps timing.
 - Improvement: Robustness of default CFLAGS.
 - Document: Not all compositors support opacity.
 - Document: Depend on an interface, not an implementation.
 - Document: Fixed license to MIT-feh. NOTE: this is NOT a license change, we
   simply fixed the document to correctly identify the license.
 - Document: Make it clear --window option takes an argument.
 - Document: Clarify imlib2 feature requirement.
 - Document: Fix --quality description in manpage.
 - Improvement: Use -O3 and do not build debug info by default if no CFLAGS was
   set by the user.
 - Improvement: Fatally error out in case the mouse pointer image cannot be
   acquired.
 - Deprecate: --note.
 - Fixes: Memory leak.
 - Several other fixes.

1.9
 - Fixes: Add delay to all capture options
 - New option: --window
 - Deprecate -S
 - Fixes: compilation on CentOS 7
 - Fixes: multiple bugs in output file handling
 - Fixes: multiple bugs in scrot's -C option
 - Fixes: restore "keep ratio" functionality in --thumb
 - New option: add --format flag
 - Improvement: allow b prefix in --delay argument
 - Fixes: memory leak on multiple -F options
 - Fixes: hostname potentially getting truncated
 - Several internal fixes
   2023-01-29 22:18:34 by Ryo ONODERA | Files touched by this commit (2526)
Log message:
*: Recursive revbup from graphics/freetype2