menyoki

Screen{shot,cast} and perform ImageOps on the command line 🌱 🏞️

menyoki is a screencast and screenshot utility that can also perform various image related operations such as making/splitting GIFs and modifying/analyzing/viewing image files. It aims to be a lightweight command line tool for either helping out on day-to-day life operations or complicated detail-centric issues. Originally it was designed to record/screenshot terminal windows but it can be tweaked easily for other purposes with command line arguments, environment variables, or a configuration file.

Supported Platforms

• Linux
  • X11 (fully supported)
  • Wayland (no record/capture)
• Windows (no record/capture)
• macOS (no record/capture)

menyoki requires a window system implementation of the supported platform for record and capture actions. Other features are expected to work normally since they don't require a window system running (or grabbing a window to operate on). For example, despite the macOS is not listed as a supported platform, menyoki still can perform image operations such as edit, analyze and view if it's compiled on macOS.

Supported Formats

• GIF
• APNG
• PNG
• JPEG
• BMP
• ICO
• TIFF
• PNM
• TGA
• farbfeld
• OpenEXR
• WebP
• AVIF
• MP4

Installation

Requirements

• Rust: 1.56.1+
• Dependencies
  • Arch Linux: libx11, libxrandr
  • Debian, Ubuntu: libx11-dev/librust-x11-dev, libxrandr-dev
  • Fedora: libX11-devel, libXrandr

Cargo

menyoki can be installed from crates.io using cargo if Rust is installed.

cargo install menyoki

Use --force option to update.

cargo install menyoki --force

Arch Linux

menyoki can be installed from the Arch Linux extra repository.

pacman -S menyoki

Or if you prefer, you can use an available AUR package for installation.

• Use an AUR helper:

paru menyoki

• Clone the package and compile it with makepkg:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/menyoki-git.git
cd menyoki-git
makepkg -si

Docker

Docker Hub

Download the orhunp/menyoki image from Docker Hub (see available tags):

docker pull orhunp/menyoki:<tag>

Run a container:

docker run orhunp/menyoki:<tag>

Building an image

After cloning the repository, you can build an image from Dockerfile:

docker build -t menyoki .

Then you can either run a container:

docker run menyoki

or spawn a shell inside the container with running it interactively:

docker run -it menyoki /bin/bash

Manual

From source

1. Clone the repository.

git clone https://github.com/orhun/menyoki.git && cd menyoki/

2. Build the project and install binary.

cargo install --path .

Releases

1. Download the latest archive from releases page and extract it.
2. Move menyoki binary to /usr/local/bin/ (Linux)

Features

• Record an animation
• Split an animation into frames
• Make an animation from frames
• Capture an image
• Edit an image
• Analyze an image
• View an image

Usage

Action
Result

Command line arguments of menyoki are designed to be as intuitive as possible. As a result of that, an action can be performed with a chain of subcommands along with the flags and options. The general prototype for the usage of command line arguments is the following:

menyoki (ACTION) (FORMAT) (OUTPUT)

The subcommand that will indicate the action is mandatory whereas format and output subcommands might be optional (or they might not exist at all). The format subcommand can be one of the supported formats and output basically corresponds to the save subcommand.

The default format is the first listed subcommand if there is not any subcommand given for specifying a format. On the other hand, save subcommand uses the "menyoki" directory in the home (or images if it exists) as the default output directory.

General

Flags and options that will generally affect the execution of menyoki can be set before specifying the main action to perform. Then the main subcommand (action) must be specified.

menyoki [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] <SUBCOMMAND>

Arguments

FLAGS:
    -h, --help       Print help information
    -V, --version    Print version information
    -v, --verbose    Increase logging verbosity
    -q, --quiet      Do not show output

OPTIONS:
    -c, --config <FILE>    Set the configuration file
        --color <HEX>      Set the main color [default: 3AA431]

SUBCOMMANDS:
    record     Record an animation
    split      Split an animation into frames
    make       Make an animation from frames
    capture    Capture an image
    edit       Edit an image
    analyze    Analyze an image
    view       View an image

Examples

Record

menyoki can record an area of a window or the whole screen and encode it as a supported format. Area selection and resize is performed with the key bindings.

A few scenarios that record action might be helpful would be:

• Record a specific area of a window
• Record for a given duration
• Record the output of a command (especially for TUI applications)

Encoding options can be changed using the arguments of the provided format. (See the output of menyoki record gif --help)

menyoki record [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] [COMMAND] [SUBCOMMAND]

Arguments

FLAGS:
    -r, --root          Record the root window
    -f, --focus         Record the focused window
        --select        Select the window to record
        --parent        Record the parent of the window
        --with-alpha    Record with the alpha channel
        --no-keys       Disable the action keys while recording
    -m, --mouse         Select the window with mouse click
    -h, --help          Print help information

OPTIONS:
        --action-keys <KEYS>    Set the action keys [default: LAlt-S,LAlt-Enter]
        --cancel-keys <KEYS>    Set the cancel keys [default: LControl-D,Escape]
    -b, --border <BORDER>       Set the border width [default: 1]
    -p, --padding <T:R:B:L>     Set the record area padding
    -s, --size <WxH>            Set the record area size
    -d, --duration <S>          Set the duration for recording [default: ∞]
    -c, --countdown <S>         Set the countdown before recording [default: 3]
    -t, --timeout <S>           Set the timeout for window selection [default: 300]
    -i, --interval <MS>         Set the refresh interval for window selection [default: 10]
        --font <FONT>           Set the font to use for window selection
        --monitor <NUM>         Set the monitor to record as root window

ARGS:
    <COMMAND>    Set the command to run

SUBCOMMANDS:
    gif     Use the GIF encoder
    apng    Use the APNG encoder
    save    Save the output file(s)

Examples