Wayland Shot

Wayland Shot is a KDE-first screenshot tool for Wayland sessions on Debian-based Linux.

The first serious build targets:

fast launch from Alt+Shift+F12
region and fullscreen capture modes
a lightweight annotation editor with select, arrow, line, rectangle, and text
copy, save, and save as

Why Qt6/C++

This machine already ships a full Qt6 runtime and KDE session stack. Qt6 is the shortest path to a native-feeling KDE application with strong D-Bus, clipboard, image editing, and packaging support.

Current State

This repository currently contains:

the application skeleton
a working editor document model
an annotation canvas shell
export plumbing for clipboard and PNG save
a placeholder capture backend until the real KDE/portal capture backend lands

Planned Build Dependencies

For the native build we expect these packages:

qt6-base-dev
qt6-tools-dev
qt6-tools-dev-tools
qt6-wayland-dev
qt6-svg-dev
qt6-declarative-dev
libkf6globalaccel-dev if we link KDE global shortcut support directly

Build

cmake -S . -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug
cmake --build build
ctest --test-dir build --output-on-failure

v1 Boundary

Deliberately cut from the first usable local build:

window capture
blur and pixelation tools
screenshot history/gallery
cross-desktop guarantees beyond KDE Wayland

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