nora

Freezes the screen then runs a program and unfreezes the screen again. The main goal is to change how screenshot tools behave when the screen updates.

Examples

# Running a simple screenshot tool
nora maim -s image.png

# Running a bash command
nora bash -c 'shotgun -g $(hacksaw)'

Installing

On Arch Linux the AUR package nora can be used.

Anywhere else binaries can be found under the releases section or cargo install nora can be used to install nora through cargo.

This repo is also a flake, you can install it on NixOS through the overlay or as a package.

{
  inputs = {
    nora.url = "github:Jokler/nora";
    # ...
  };
  outputs = {
    nora,
    ...
  }: {
    nixosConfigurations = {
      host = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
        system = "x86_64-linux";
        modules = [
          # ...
          ({pkgs, ...}: {
            # via overlay
            nixpkgs.overlays = [ nora.overlays.default ];
            environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.nora ];

            # or via package:
            environment.systemPackages = [ nora.packages.x86_64-linux.nora ];
          })
        ];
      };
    };
  };
}