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		zahlman 31 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Just let me select text I've heard of tesseract and xsel, but what is maim? Seems a bit hard to look up given that it's also a common word.

suikun 31 days ago | [–]

“maim (make image) takes screenshots of your desktop.” https://github.com/naelstrof/maim

Found it by searching through the official arch linux packages: https://archlinux.org/packages/ Could also have tried AUR if hadn’t found it there :)

fread2281 31 days ago | [–]

https://github.com/naelstrof/maim/ it's a screenshot utility

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