Features:
- Highly customizable
- In-app screenshot editing
- Upload to online platforms
- Command-line interface (CLI)
Platforms:
- Linux
- Windows
- MacOS
Link: flameshot.org.
A great tool, wish they had a feature that would allow you to add plugins/add-ons such as OCR, GIF Maker etc. Similar to what FlowLauncher offers plugins wise. (FlowLauncher is a FOSS system wide search engine for windows).
FlowLauncher looks neat, like KRunner for Windows. Thanks for sharing
Any reason to use Flow Launcher over Power toys Run?
Flow Launcher is way more powerful, customisable and has plugins support. Power toys run is pretty limited. With flow launcher you can direct search internet queries with your favourite search engine.
Why does it remind me of Fossify?
It’s all the green
Of which you can choose the colour yourself
Green is the default
Really? Mine is blue
I was talking about Fossify apps
Mine is purple
I think all those buttons immediately visible would scare a lot of non-technical people.
Goddammit Steve Jobs, you’re dead! Stop trying to impose your ideals on us from beyond the grave!
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Does Spectacle work well with Wayland?
It works flawlessly. Yes, currently it takes a bit of tweaking to get it working on Wayland, but once you nail it, flawless and so freaking useful. Once I started using it I find every other screen shot app lacking.
So if you have to get it working on Wayland, I don’t think it works flawless. What exactly did you do?
I agree, but flawless does apply after the tweak/workaround is completed.
- Anyway, if installed from flatpak:
sudo tee /usr/local/bin/flameshot-workaround > /dev/null <<'EOF'#!/bin/bashflameshotEOFsudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/flameshot-workaroundAfter this, just make the call from:
/usr/local/bin/flameshot-workaroundinstead of:
flameshot gui- If installed RPM, then make the call from:
script --command "flameshot gui" /dev/nullinstead of:
flameshot guiSo why do that? Seems like you’re just piping the output to null?
Apparently (from what I was able to gather, but I’m certainly no dev) that nullifies the part of Gnome in Wayland that makes it fail and not capture.
Whatever the case, it’s been working flawlessly for me since Fedora 38 on Gnome 44.
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Thanks for taking the time to explain this in detail. I have been wanting to get into the actual understanding of Linux commands to a deeper level for years now, but with 2 jobs, 3 kids, 3 dogs and church, what little free time I’ve had I tend to spend either playing some video games or sleeping.
You are right, I should get up off my ass and continue learning, and I will start today, by not entering commands and scripts that I find in the internet blindly (which is what I’ve been doing) but actually finding out what each part does before doing so.
I really liked it but unfortunately I was not able to get it to work on Wayland (with Hyprland) at all.
Does this have the ability to scroll and stitch together long documents or web pages?
Anyone know a screenshot tool that can do this effect easily and directly? I tried out a lot of tools and I’m unable to find any. Currently I’m using either Inkscape or Illustrator to get this effect. This is really good effect to prepare documentations.
I’ve never been able to get this to work in a stock debain 12 / gnome environment.
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I’ve never been able to get it to work in anything.
On Mac, with multiple displays, it seems to be broken. Sometimes it targets the wrong display, and mixes the resolutions. Have tried for a while because it seems perfect on Linux.
Will try again in a while
For me it gets a bit confused if I add or remove the external screens.
Usually it is fixed if I quit and restart flameshot
For Mac, I just use the built-in shortcut. Command+shift+4
I just got a Mac. Thanks. I gotta figure out how to turn that into command shift s now lol
Settings -> keyboard -> keyboard shortcuts -> screenshots
(Translated from a different language, so the wording might be a bit different)
If you’re on Mac there is no reason to use this instead of the brilliant Shottr app.
I’m currently using shottr, but without those bugs I would still use flameshot. Might be due to familiarity, but I liked it more.
Also, if I can I rather use FOSS.
Any reason to use this instead of ShareX?
Not for me, went back to ShareX. I can’t find anything that does all the things and better.
UI scaling?
I recently switched from ShareX to Flames hot (on Windows) because of it.
ShareX is only available for Windows since it relies on some APIs in .NET
.NET works on non-Windows OSes too, at least enough to have a GUI. Avalonia is cross-platform for example. Not only across desktop but also mobile and web.
Flameshot was great. One day it just stopped working on my Ubuntu (Gnome). Now I use the default tool that comes with KDE, and it’s nearly perfect.
I often use this over KDE’s inbuilt screenshot tool because this one has a quick way to crop a screenshot
For wayland, i use the combination of grim+slurp+swappy.
I recommend checking out satty as well.
thanks, will check it out. seems like an upgrade to swappy.
I use greenshot at work, and have been looking for something for my Linux box. I’ll give this a shot. Thanks for sharing.
There’s also an app called Shutter that works quite well
I second Shutter on Linux, too.
For Windows, I recommend ShareX. It feels more modern than Greenshot, has more features and is more customizable. And it’s open-source: https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX
I’ve been using lightshot for years and love it, might have to try others out just to see what else is out there
Edit: Been using ShareX for a little bit today, and yes. it is superior to lightshot
i use this at work, and its great. Only downside is, that the buttons are hard to identify and move depending on the size of the screenshot, so you always have to search for the function you need.
Does anyone have a workaround for this?
For the longest time I used
gnome-screenshotvia shortcuts that execute terminal commands. Nowadays, I use my dedicated print screen button (that probably just executes similar commands and uses gnome-screenshot on the background).I’ve learned the keyboard shortcuts that matter to me, but I agree I wish it was a consistent horizontal bar.
No! This has been bugging me for quite some time as well. Other than that, it’s excellent software.
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