Finally, a new post after 3 months, been busy… Today I will be using scrot for screen grabbing inside dwm. For this to work I’ll be using a helper macro that spawns a shell command, which should already be inside your config.h file. There is another work around to this that will be explained at the end.

Method 1

Find or create the macro inside config.h.

#define SHCMD(cmd) { .v = (const char*[]){ "/bin/sh", "-c", cmd, NULL } }

Define your screenshot command, in my case I’ll name it SSCMD.

#define SSCMD "scrot -s -l mode=edge -e 'xclip -selection clipboard -t image/png -i $f' /home/{USER}/Pictures/screenshots/screenshot_%Y-%m-%d_%H.%M.%S.png"

Finnaly add a new keybinding.

static const Key keys[] = {
    // ...
    { MODKEY|ShiftMask,         XK_s,           spawn,          SHCMD(SSCMD) },
    // ...
}

If you find some trouble you can try adding a small delay just like this:

#define SSCMD "sleep 0.2; scrot ..."

Method 2

Apply the keypressrelease patch.