Aya

Aya is a command-line screenshotter tool for Unix-based systems that run on X11 environments such as Linux systems, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and others.

Requirements and download

Requirements:

• Unix-like system that can run a graphical X11 desktop (such as Linux-based systems, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc)
• Java 11 or newer
• FFmpeg or ImageMagick
• Xwininfo (optional, for window capture)

Download Aya's latest release here.

Note: ImageMagick support is secondary and lacks some features/support compared to FFmpeg.

How to use

Once downloaded, you can run Aya with the command java -jar aya.jar. Simply running Aya will make it take an immediate screenshot (unless your system is unsupported).

To see a full list of options, run java -jar aya.jar -h.

Aya also makes use of a configuration file, located in ~/.config/aya/aya.conf. This config overrides Aya's default behavior, but any CLI argument you pass to it will also override the respective config's settings.

Supported image formats

• PNG
• JPG
• AVIF (FFmpeg only)

Build from source

Download Yuuka, open a terminal at the root of the project and run:

yuuka package

Or if you don't have Yuuka installed:

java -jar yuuka.jar package