[feature-request] crop support about swappy

[cauebs]

Just to add to what @Ulexus said, sometimes you want to capture something that requires a mouse hover, and thus using slurp is not viable, requiring you to capture the entire screen. Being able to capture first and crop later would be great (like what flameshot does). Today I have to resort to GIMP for this quite often.

[jtheoof]

I agree, I'm hopping to get back to it at some point but my time on the project is currently very limited due to family reasons. It will come out at some point.

[foonathan]

I'd particularly like to see an "auto crop" tool, since doing a preselection isn't precise. I can do a PR if you're interested.

[matthewarmand]

I found a workaround if you use grim and slurp. You can take a full screenshot, when swappy opens, make a screenshot of swappy window. That way you'll have two instances of swappy and second one will have cropped image.

Yeah I've been doing this too, but it does sacrifice some resolution on the ultimate image. I think a crop feature in swappy would still be preferable.

[woojiq]

I found a workaround if you use grim and slurp. You can take a full screenshot, when swappy opens, make a screenshot of swappy window. That way you'll have two instances of swappy and second one will have cropped image.

[adonespitogo]

This feature is really nifty for any annotation tool.

[matheusmoreira]

I really need this feature too. Cropping is the the most common operation I perform on screenshots. I'm gonna try implementing it and send you a pull request if I succeed.