📸 Xhot It

Xhot it (read as "shot it") is just another screenshot app in your desktop: an experimental application. Powered by Tauri v2.

Features

• 🖼️ Capture Area: capture screenshot using free selection
• 🪟 Capture Active Window: capture the active window only
• 🖥️ Capture Screen: capture the whole screen
• 🎨 Backdrop Background: setting backdrop background
• ⚡️ Image Compression: compress jpg or png (since v1.1.0)

Download

Download the executable files in our release page.

🍏 Known Issues in MacOS

1. Enable screen recording in Mac

• Go to System Settings > Privacy & Security
• Scroll down to Screen & System Audio Recording, click it
• Make sure to give access to "Xhot It" app.

▶️ https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/mac-help/mchld6aa7d23/mac

2. Can not open the App

It was blocked and detected as malware by default in MacOS since we didn't do a code-signing. There is no plan to fix it in the near future. Meantime, you need to give an access manually. Check these step by step:

• Go to System Settings > Privacy & Security
• Scroll down to Security section
• Make sure to "Open Anyway" when it's asked

3. Resolve app is damaged

If the App can not be open, and show message "App is damaged", you need to enter additional command in your terminal:

xattr -c /Applications/Xhot It.app

Development

Prerequisites

• bun: https://bun.sh/docs/cli/install
• rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install

Install deps

bun install

Run app in your local

bun run tdev

Debug build

bun run tdebug

Credits

• dimaportenko/code-helper for the base code
• screenshots and xcap for capturing screen
• active-win-pos-rs to detect active window position
• lvandeve/lodepng to compress png
• kornelski/mozjpeg-sys to compress jpg

Contributors

Thanks goes to these wonderful people!

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