Bind glimpse to keys

glimpse's tools are ordinary commands, so any key your compositor can bind can drive them.

Command	What it does
loginctl lock-session	Lock the screen now
glimpse-shot --screen	Freeze the screen and mark it up
glimpse-shot --window	Click a window, then mark it up
glimpse-shot --region	Drag a rectangle (Space takes the whole screen), then mark it up
glimpse-shot capture --copy --no-save	Copy the focused output, no file, no window
glimpse-lens --tool picker | wl-copy -n	Pick a color and copy its hex value
glimpsectl applet toggle clock	Open or close the clock's calendar popover
glimpsectl notifications dnd on	Silence notifications until you turn it off
glimpsectl notifications dnd on --until 18:00	Silence them until a local time, today or tomorrow
glimpsectl notifications dnd off	Let notifications through again
glimpsectl appearance set dark	Hold the desktop in dark mode
glimpsectl appearance resume	Follow the configured light/dark policy again
glimpsectl night-light pause	Keep daylight color until the current night ends

applet toggle takes the applet name; with a bar on several monitors, add --output and the connector. With two bars on one monitor, add --edge too (top, bottom, left or right). glimpsectl refuses an ambiguous name. glimpsectl applet list lists the names, outputs and edges. Every command and flag is in the command reference: glimpsectl, glimpse-shot, glimpse-lens.

A binding in your compositor's configuration pairs a key with one of the commands above (the syntax is your compositor's):

// ~/.config/niri/config.kdl
binds {
    Mod+Shift+X { spawn "loginctl" "lock-session"; }
    Print { spawn "glimpse-shot" "--screen"; }
    Mod+Shift+C { spawn "sh" "-c" "glimpse-lens --tool picker | wl-copy -n"; }
    Mod+Shift+D { spawn "glimpsectl" "applet" "toggle" "clock"; }
}