Fast, lightweight screen capture, video recording, and ShareX destination hub made specifically for Linux Wayland.
Quick Install • Features • Keybindings • CLI Reference • Build from Source
If you've ever moved from Windows to Linux and missed the sheer convenience of ShareX — immediate region snips, built-in editor annotations, automatic uploads, and custom .sxcu destination support — ShareL was built for you.
Written in Rust and powered by native Wayland protocols, ShareL works out of the box on tiling compositors like Niri, Hyprland, and Sway, as well as desktop environments like GNOME, KDE Plasma, and COSMIC.
Run our self-contained installer script to set up dependencies, compile/download the binary, install desktop shortcuts, and put sharel in your ~/.local/bin:
curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/44tl/ShareL/main/install.sh | bash# Skip installing system packages (if you already have them)
./install.sh --no-deps
# Skip compilation and install a pre-built binary
./install.sh --no-build
# Pull and install updates
./install.sh --update
# Install or switch to a specific release tag
./install.sh --version v1.0.0
# Install to a custom directory (default is ~/.local/bin)
./install.sh --prefix /usr/local- Wayland First: First-class support for Niri (with horizontal scroll column awareness), Hyprland, Sway, GNOME, KDE Plasma, and COSMIC.
- Smart Backend Selection: Automatically picks the best capture method for your session (
grim/slurp, XDG Desktop Portal, or native compositor CLI). - Flexible Modes: Grab interactive regions with a pixel magnifier, full monitors, individual windows, or the active display.
- Hardware-Accelerated Video: Smooth 60/120 FPS video & GIF recording with
gpu-screen-recorder(NVENC / VAAPI) andwf-recorder. - Audio Capture: Record your microphone, desktop system audio, or both simultaneously.
- Countdown Timer: Delay screenshots by a few seconds to capture tooltips, hover menus, and context dropdowns.
- Drawing Tools: Crisp arrows, numbered step badges, rectangles, ellipses, freehand brush strokes, and text labels.
- Privacy Obfuscation: Pixelate or blur sensitive tokens, credentials, and email addresses before uploading.
- Crop & Resize: Quickly crop down to the exact area you care about.
- Undo / Redo History: Full
Ctrl+Z/Ctrl+Yhistory stack.
- Direct
.sxcuImport: Import your existing ShareX config files with drag-and-drop. - Instant Defaults: Includes ready-to-use destinations like
0x0.standLitterboxwith zero API configuration required. - Custom Domains & Extraction: Supports JSON path (
$json:data.url$), regex, response headers, and vanity domain replacement. - Live Destination Tester: Run quick sandbox uploads to inspect response payloads, headers, and latency.
- Screen OCR: Extract readable text from any image or screen snip using Tesseract.
- Pixel Color Picker: Inspect hex/RGB values and compute screen aspect ratios & pixel geometry.
- QR Code Studio: Generate and decode QR codes instantly.
- History Gallery: Search, filter, and favorite all your previous snapshots and recordings.
- File Manager DBus Integration: Highlight saved media in Dolphin, Nautilus, COSMIC Files, Thunar, or Nemo.
- Built-in Auto Updater & Rollback: Get notified when new versions drop, inspect changelogs, skip unwanted releases, or revert with
sharel rollback.
Add ShareL directly to your compositor config for instant muscle memory:
binds {
Print { spawn "sharel" "capture" "region"; }
Mod+Print { spawn "sharel" "capture" "region" "--upload"; }
Alt+Print { spawn "sharel" "capture" "window"; }
Ctrl+Print { spawn "sharel" "capture" "fullscreen"; }
}bind = , Print, exec, sharel capture region
bind = SUPER, Print, exec, sharel capture region --upload
bind = ALT, Print, exec, sharel capture window
bind = CTRL, Print, exec, sharel capture fullscreenbindsym Print exec sharel capture region
bindsym $mod+Print exec sharel capture region --upload
bindsym Mod1+Print exec sharel capture window
bindsym Control+Print exec sharel capture fullscreensharel has a fast CLI that easily plugs into scripts, rofi/wofi menus, and keyboard shortcuts:
# Check current environment, compositor, and backend readiness
sharel info
# Capture an interactive region
sharel capture region
# Capture fullscreen and upload immediately
sharel capture fullscreen --upload
# Delayed 3-second capture
sharel capture region -d 3
# Upload any local image or video
sharel upload ~/Pictures/diagram.png
# Run OCR to extract text to your clipboard
sharel ocr ~/Pictures/invoice.png
# List configured upload destinations
sharel uploaders
# Check if an update is available on GitHub
sharel update --check
# Install the latest update automatically (with backup protection)
sharel update
# Revert to your previous backup binary or a specific release tag
sharel rollback
sharel revert v1.0.0
# Ignore or unignore a specific release from prompting
sharel ignore-version 1.1.0
sharel unignore-version 1.1.0
# Browse recent releases
sharel releasesIf you prefer installing system packages manually before building:
sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel rust cargo nodejs npm webkit2gtk-4.1 openssl libayatana-appindicator grim slurp ffmpeg tesseract tesseract-data-eng wl-clipboardsudo dnf install gcc gcc-c++ openssl-devel webkit2gtk4.1-devel libappindicator-gtk3-devel librsvg2-devel ffmpeg tesseract wl-clipboard grim slurpsudo apt update && sudo apt install -y build-essential curl libssl-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev libayatana-appindicator3-dev librsvg2-dev ffmpeg tesseract-ocr wl-clipboard grim slurp# 1. Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/44tl/ShareL.git
cd ShareL
# 2. Install web packages & start live development server
pnpm install
pnpm tauri dev
# 3. Build optimized release binary
pnpm tauri buildYour compiled release binary will be ready at src-tauri/target/release/sharel.
ShareL is open source. Ideas, bug reports, and pull requests are always welcome! Check out our Contributing Guidelines and Security Policy.