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slop (Select Operation) is an application that querys for a selection from the user and prints the region to stdout. It grabs the mouse and turns it into a crosshair, lets the user click and drag to make a selection (or click on a window) while drawing a pretty box around it, then finally prints the selection's dimensions to stdout.
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* Hovering over a window will cause a selection rectangle to appear over it.
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* Clicking on a window makes slop return the dimensions of the window.
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* Clicking and dragging causes a selection rectangle to appear, renders pretty well (compared to scrot). And will return the dimensions of that rectangle in absolute screen coords.
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* Set the color of the selection rectangles to match your theme! (Even supports transparency!)
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slop can be used to create a video recording script in only two lines of code.
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Copyright (C) 2014 Dalton Nell, GPLv3
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Dalton Nell
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