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Built it and took a fullscreen screenshot with GIMP to figure out the width/height/x/y coordinates I wanted and tested with Google Meet. Working perfectly!

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https://github.com/naelstrof/slop Can also use a utility like this one, which lets you select an area of the screen and output it in a specified format.

Wow that is also very cool. For those wondering, this is what it looks like:

  $ sudo apt install slop
  $ slop
       <selects an area on screen>
  1719x1403+1080+277

Putting the two together is easy too:

$ clipscreen $(slop -F "%x %y %w %h")

NB. The lack of quotes around $() enables wordsplitting to occur.

I think you got the size and position switched.

$ clipscreen $(slop | tr -s "+x" " ")

this is just cmd+shift+5 in a Mac OS

Is it? I thought that took a screenshot, not fed coordinates to a program (in this case a screen sharing program)

Did you have any issues implementing?

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