still(1)

🌸 still(1) — the freeze-frame era 💅

ok so bestie, welcome to still(1), from the General Commands Manual section (yes, section 1, we're in command territory 👑). This little icon is gonna freeze your Wayland compositor's screen while you run a command. Let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

still — freezes the screen of a Wayland compositor until a command you hand it exits. that's it. that's the whole vibe 💀

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

still [options...] -c <command>

literally just that. options, then -c and your command, periodt.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so still freezes your screen and runs a command while it's frozen. main character energy: the screen is paused, the command is doing its thing underneath 🌈

⚠️ okay important bestie — make sure the command you give it actually gives you a way to quit, just in case it takes over the keyboard input. no cap, this matters 🙈

if keyboard input isn't taken over and you're just running it from the terminal, you can still hit Ctrl+C — because still just lets all input pass through. phew 😭

for example, you can freeze the screen to select a region on the screen(s) with slurp(1) and take a screenshot of that region with grim(1), like this:

still -c 'slurp | grim -g- -'

and swappy(1) can also be used to annotate it right away — obsessed:

still -c 'slurp | grim -g- -' | swappy -f -

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💖 OPTIONS 💖

• -h — show the help message and quit. short and sweet, we love a polite exit ✨
• -c command — the shell command, which gets executed via sh -c <command> while the screen is frozen. this is the whole point of the program, ngl 🔥
• -p — include a pointer (cursor) on the frozen screenshot. for when you want the cursor to be part of the moment 🎯
• -a — force an alpha channel on the frozen screenshot, so compositors can keep rendering windows below it. transparency slay 🫶

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🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

grim(1) slurp(1) swappy(1) — the whole friend group, fr fr 💜

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

written and maintained by Sergei Slipchenko <faergeek@gmail.com>. an icon.

source code is available at https://github.com/faergeek/still — go give it some love 🍓

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ok that's the whole page bestie, you're officially educated 🧚💖

signing off with the classic still(1) energy — dated 1980-01-01, which is lowkey iconic of it ⭐ (yes that's the footer date, don't @ me 💅)