diff --git a/settings/quickshell.nix b/settings/quickshell.nix
index f8e750e..62aeb22 100644
--- a/settings/quickshell.nix
+++ b/settings/quickshell.nix
@@ -106,6 +106,17 @@ in
           pw=$(${pkgs.zenity}/bin/zenity --password --title="WiFi Password" 2>/dev/null)
           [ -n "$pw" ] && ${pkgs.networkmanager}/bin/nmcli device wifi connect "$ssid" password "$pw"
         '';
+        # Region picker for the recorder card. The < /dev/null is the whole
+        # point of this wrapper: "if the standard input is not a TTY, slurp
+        # will read a list of predefined rectangles" (slurp(1)), and
+        # quickshell's Process hands every child a pipe on stdin. So a slurp
+        # spawned from QML silently switches to rectangle-list mode and blocks
+        # on a read that never EOFs — alive, drawing nothing, no layer surface,
+        # no input, forever. hyprshot escapes this only because Hyprland's
+        # exec gives it a tty. -d matches hyprshot: show the size while dragging.
+        slurpRegionScript = pkgs.writeShellScript "slurp-region" ''
+          exec ${pkgs.slurp}/bin/slurp -d < /dev/null
+        '';
         # Screen recording, driven by the quick-settings card. $1 is a slurp
         # geometry ("" = whole output), $2 is "audio" or anything else.
         #
@@ -1424,7 +1435,7 @@ in
                 readonly property string wxFetch: "${wxFetchScript}"
                 readonly property string xdgOpen: "${pkgs.xdg-utils}/bin/xdg-open"
                 readonly property string screenRec: "${screenRecScript}"
-                readonly property string slurp: "${pkgs.slurp}/bin/slurp"
+                readonly property string slurpRegion: "${slurpRegionScript}"
                 readonly property string themeApply: "${themeApply}"
             }
           '';
@@ -6306,7 +6317,7 @@ in
                             // is still waiting for a drag.
                             Process {
                                 id: slurpProc
-                                command: [Commands.slurp]
+                                command: [Commands.slurpRegion]
                                 property string geom: ""
                                 // SplitParser, not StdioCollector: the line has
                                 // to be in hand by the time exited fires.