ShareXin

Screenshots

Requirements

• Rust Nightly
• Unix-like system
• xdg (probably already installed)
• maim (on non-Gnome/KDE x11 desktops)
• slop (on non-Gnome/KDE x11 desktops)
• imagemagick
• openssl
• t (for now)
• toot (for now)

Features

• Uploads to Twitter and Mastodon and Imgur
• Allows taking screenshots and saving them to files
• Notifications via dbus
• GUI works with GTK
• Screenshotting works with X11 and Wayland (on supported desktops)
• Saves screenshots to a folder in your Pictures directory

--help

```bash sharexin 0.4.9 Usage: sharexin [destination] [image options] [FILE]

Options: -h, --help Display this help message and exit -V, --version Print version info and exit -U, --upgrade Check for new updates

Image Options: area Grab an area of the screen instead of the entire screen window Grab the current window instead of the entire screen full Grab the entire screen file Use a file

Destinations: toot Upload to Mastodon (uses "toot") tweet Upload to Twitter (uses "t") imgur Upload to Imgur

Examples: sharexin toot sharexin tweet full sharexin toot area sharexin imgur file [FILE] ```

Language support

English

Français by @Eleoryth

Español

Esperanto

简体中文

繁體中文

日本語

한국어

Deutsch by @qwertxzy

Compiling

Dependencies for compiling

• gtk3
• cairo
• libnotify
• pango
• gdk-pixbuf2
• atk
• openssl

Ubuntu dependencies

• libgtk-3-dev
• libcairo2-dev
• libnotify-dev
• libpango1.0-dev
• libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev
• libatk1.0-dev
• libssl1.0-dev
• libssl-dev

Fedora dependencies

• gtk3-devel
• cairo-devel
• libnotify-devel
• pango-devel
• gdk-pixbuf2-devel
• atk-devel
• openssl-devel

FreeBSD dependencies

• openssl-devel
• gmake
• gcc

Compling tested on

• Ubuntu 17.04
• Fedora 26
• Arch Linux with i3
• FreeBSD with Xfce
• TrueOS

Dependency installation on Fedora

dnf install gtk3-devel cairo-devel libnotify-devel pango-devel gdk-pixbuf2-devel atk-devel openssl-devel

Dependency installation on Ubuntu

apt install libgtk-3-dev libcairo2-dev libnotify-dev libpango1.0-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libatk1.0-dev libssl1.0-dev libssl-dev

Dependency installation on FreeBSD or TrueOS

pkg install openssl-devel gmake gcc

Compiling (via Github)

1. git clone https://github.com/thebitstick/ShareXin/
2. cargo install
3. Login to Twitter and/or Mastodon using t and/or toot
4. Explore --help

Compiling (via Crates.io)

1. cargo install sharexin
2. Login to Twitter and/or Mastodon using t and/or toot
3. Explore --help

Changelog

[0.4.9] - 2017-08-12

• Lots of optimizations
• Actual bug fixes
• Better error messages
• format! is a thing
• gnome-screenshot has native shadow effects for windows
• Really dumb seg fault
• Less code, actually
• Less comments, cause "comments are bad"

[0.4.8] - 2017-08-11

• Stderr used for errors
• Returns for String methods rather than variables
• Completely remade the help function, universal syntax
• Bug fixes

[0.4.7] - 2017-08-09

• Character count now shows when you've hit the limit and when you've passed the limit
• Rather than crashing, if notify-rust is unable to show you a notification, it'll display an error message and exit nicely
• Added French error messages
• Bug fixes

[0.4.6] - 2017-08-09

• Error messages now translated
• When uploading an image to Twitter, the character limit is reduced to 117, just like on ShareX
• Less panicking
• Less repetitiveness
• t and toot now show notification if command fails to run (API troubles or no internet), rather than just showing you the "Sent" notification
• Bug fixes
• Known issue: In order to get t working correctly without a terminal, it must killall vim, so consider it a feature-bug

[0.4.5] - 2017-08-07

• BSD support, tested on FreeBSD with Xfce
• Rather than panicking, ShareXin exits with an error message
• Cleaner command line parsing
• Error messages now multi-lingual, that is if the error doesn't include $LANG
• Bug fixes

[0.4.4] - 2017-08-04

• Untested Mac notifications
• Shadows only added to Window screenshots
• Mac screenshot support coming soon
• Bug fixes? Cleaner code? Maybe

[0.4.3] - 2017-08-03

• Bug fixes
• Cleaner code

[0.4.1] - 2017-08-02

• Partial Wayland support for Gnome, Plasma, and Sway
• Gnome-Screenshot used on Gnome
• Spectacle used on Plasma/KDE
• Swaygrab used on Sway (i3-clone)

[0.4.0] - 2017-08-01

• Cursor hidden in all screenshots
• Removed double shadow
• Bug fixes

[0.3.9] - 2017-07-31

• Bug fixes

[0.3.8] - 2017-07-30

• Better struct management
• Imgur support! Opens image in browser
• Changed date variable (had to change it manually everytime

[0.3.7] - 2017-07-29

• Custom error handles
• Added experimental open Image Option, lets you select an image (animated or not) or possibly a video and send to a destination
• Update checker implemented properly
• Fixed service variables, now using structs
• Readying code for more destinations
• auth option not working at this current moment in time due to immature twitter apis available for Rust
• imgur option hints at what will be the next Destination

[0.3.6] - 2017-07-28

• Character count now turns red when over the limit
• You can't send a toot or tweet if it's over the limit
• Double the ImageMagick shadow
• No longer using Pipers crate
• Changed those weird "mort" and "morti" variables
• Commented most of the code, cleaned up

[0.3.5] - 2017-07-27

• Added button to check your image
• Added upgrade checker
• Added character count
• Beautified code
• New command line args

[0.3.4] - 2017-07-26

• Window screenshot adds shadow
• Separated main.rs function gui()

[0.3.3] - 2017-07-26

• New UI thanks to Glade
• Notifications now have language support
• Pressing Control+Return sends your message
• Native Buttons, language changes!

[0.3.2] - 2017-07-25

• Cleaned help messages, used GNU coreutil messages for some items

[0.3.1] - 2017-07-25

• Separated main.rs into {main, help, file, send}.rs, less scrolling

[0.3.0] - 2017-07-25

• Die Deutsche Sprache!
• Falsche Kompilierungsdatum

[0.2.9] - 2017-07-25

• Multaj Lingovj! Added French, Spanish, Esperanto, and Japanese translations for --help!

[0.2.8] - 2017-07-25

• Maim replacing Gnome-screenshot
• Shadow added to area screenshots using ImageMagick
• Notification adds back tweet text

[0.2.7] - 2017-07-24

• Notifications via libnotify (bye bye dbus)
• Username gotten by $USER var, rather than an entire library (thanks std!)

[0.2.6] - 2017-07-23

• Forgot to update the version # for 0.2.5 from 0.2.4 and Crates wouldn't allow a reupload so....

[0.2.5] - 2017-07-23

• Better word wrap
• Better temp dir
• Notification actually shows image now

[0.2.4] - 2017-07-21

• Added version info
• Made --help prettier

[0.2.3] - 2017-07-21

• Send button now says Toot or Tweet depending on where you're going
• TextView no longer accepts tabs

[0.2.2] - 2017-07-21

• TextView now word wraps
• Ability to simply just tweet without an image
• Mort

[0.2.1] - 2017-07-20

• Centered window (why isn't .set_position() IN THE DOCS)

[0.2.0] - 2017-07-20

• Uh, if you're haven problems with t not loadin', check your $PATH

[0.1.0] - 2017-07-19

• Bug fixes and improvements

[0.0.0] - 2017-07-19

Added

• First commit