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Flameshot – Superb Screenshot Tool
- avhception 6y agoI've been blown away by this awesome screenshot-tool and couldn't help but share it here.
- chrisma0 6y agoThis has been one of the first utilities I install on new Ubuntu machines for some time. Really recommended and a huge improvement on the default!
- atsider 6y agoYep, it combines the convenience of a GUI, the scripting capabilities and the power of the key shortcuts. It's almost perfect!
- tekromancr 6y agoIts really cool! I might use it as a backup for when I need to do annotated screenshots. Otherwise, it's just so quick to have the gnome extension "screenshot tool" automatically put my selection in the clipboard
- farisjarrah 6y agoFlameshot is amazing. Really hoping it fully supports MacOS with a simple brew install at some point. Such a great tool compared to Mac's built in screenshot/markup utilities
- guerby 6y agoFrom github: "There are no macOS port of flameshot now that can be easy installed. But you can build flameshot by yourself and use it. Please participate in the development of flameshot and help us make a macOS version."
- CharlesW 6y agoFWIW, a good built-in workflow is the Screenshot app (for image or video capture) + Preview (click the "Markup" button in Preview to see the annotation tools).
- johnwalkr 6y agoThe built-in keyboard shortcuts cover my use-cases: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201361 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201361
- whateveracct 6y agois there a way to disable uploading to imgur? i wouldn't want to accidentally do it!
- pmontra 6y agoProbably not unless the reply to this issue from 2018 https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/issues/381 https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/issues/381 is hinting about a rc file instead of recompiling with the button disabled in qmake. Edit: I went on reading the code. The image uploader is hardcoded into https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/blob/97c195452293fb16a3015eb4f4dd44e80893f5dd/src/widgets/capture/capturetoolbutton.cpp#L171 https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/blob/97c195452293... and I didn't find anything to conditionally remove it from the UI. But I won't bet a coffee on it after only a 10 minute cursory scan of the code.
- thinkdecidedo 6y agoI just had to execute 'flameshot config' and to disable the Image Uploader button.
- nobleach 6y agoUse this config option: https://ibb.co/XS6TsXS https://ibb.co/XS6TsXS
- gramakri 6y agoIn the config, there is a checkbox for the image uploader https://i.imgur.com/pTiY2ul.png https://i.imgur.com/pTiY2ul.png
- garymoon 6y agoAfter I knew Shutter was going to be deprecated I found Flameshot and I'm not changing it. Really good tool
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- kylegill 6y agoThis looks really neat, it's amazing what an animated gif or video can do for a README to help to understand what a thing is meant to do. If I were more of a hacker and hadn't already paid the best 25 bucks I've ever spent on CleanShot X [0] I'd be all over this. [0]: https://cleanshot.com/ https://cleanshot.com/
- tomerbd 6y agoAll over what animated gif? But with which software?
- gingerlime 6y agonot OP but I think they meant all over this tool (Flameshot). Like OP, I’m also a HUGE fan of cleanshot x for mac. Got our entire team on it, some were quite happy with the built-in screen grabbing tool on Mac, but pretty much all love Cleanshot.
- kylegill 6y agoI was referring to the gif on the GitHub README here: https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/#preview https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/#preview (sorry if I was vague) In this project's case, it showcases a lot of features as they're actually used, rather than some bullets that say what it _should_ do. In general, I appreciate a gif like this for explaining because it boils down some essential features into one easily digestable clip. It's a preferable medium for me over a long YouTube video or text explaining how something works.
- ainiriand 6y agoAnd you weren't using MacOS that is, right?
- kylegill 6y agoHaha an important detail! Looks like they're trying to make an easily installable version for Mac. I see commits in the log about MacOS as well as a note that mentions building it yourself: > There are no macOS port of flameshot now that can be easy installed. But you can build flameshot by yourself and use it.
- mariocesar 6y agoNative app and cross platform, great work!
- ducktective 6y agoIt's using QT5 so not "native" on GTK-based DEs. I think by native, you meant it is not some Electron monstrosity which is great :)
- bombledmonk 6y agoI've sampled many screenshot tools over the years and it seems like everyone has their opinions. This looks like an improved version of Lightshot which is one of my favorites, but had a few limitations. My current (windows only) favorite is Screenshot Captor [1] which definitely has a power user bent, but I really like the ability to always both copy the screenshot to clipboard as well as save the screenshot for later use. There's a lot of power built into the annotation/editing tools and a million and one ways to configure/custom process stuff afterwards. [1]https://www.donationcoder.com/software/mouser/popular-apps/screenshot-captor https://www.donationcoder.com/software/mouser/popular-apps/s...
- MegaDeKay 6y agoFlameshot is really good (I use it myself on Linux) but there are a couple features I miss from other tools. This probably suggests that I request these on their github :-) - there doesn't seem to be an option that asks me to prompt for a file name and location if I want to save the screenshot at the time I have taken it. It will use a preselected location and an auto-generated name instead (and/or save to clipboard). - if I want to annotate the image, it is done on the area of the screen the image was originally captured in. The method I prefer and used in other programs is to put the capture into a new window that you can move around and then edit within.
- calabroa 6y agoAgreed - absolutely love this tool and use it with my PrintScreen button on Linux.
- piranha 6y agoI use xnipapp.com right now and this looks even better in terms of editing tools, except for one thing: scrolling capture. It allows me to capture scrolling portions of the screen and it's just so damn useful!
- dgrabla 6y ago"> flameshot gui" is awesome, one of the most useful tools I use and a terrific replacement for shutter||xclip. I recommend "> peek" to capture gifs.
- jsiepkes 6y agoGreat tool! But be careful though. In the default config there is a button next to the save local button which uploads your image as a public image to imgur without asking for confirmation. Fortunately you can remove the button via the settings menu though I do think it is a rather dangerous button to have there by default.
- rosmax_1337 6y agoThanks for the notice, I was taken away by how great the tool was working and making my workflow far easier when helping people with various kinds of IT problems. Uploading a screenshot of something that might contain sensitive information is not something I want to have happen by accident!
- doublerabbit 6y agoPasswords are automatically encrypted on HN right? *** Neat.
- moustachehedron 6y agohunter2 Hmm, doesn't seem to work for me...
- FootballMuse 6y agoThis is what I see... > moustachehedron 10 hours ago | parent | on: Flameshot – Superb Screenshot Tool > ******* > Hmm, doesn't seem to work for me... When YOU type hunter2, it shows to us as *******
- stingraycharles 6y agoI personally have bound my print screen button to “flameshot gui” - it presents an excellent dialog window of what you actually want to do with the screenshot, and offers to annotate it etc. 90% of the time copying it to the clipboard is good enough, but sometimes the option to upload as a public image is nice.
- candied_scarf 6y agodo they know windows bins are missing from the newest release?
- exhilaration 6y agowait, there's a windows version?
- candied_scarf 6y agolook at older releases. as mentioned the newest is missing for some reason.
- ducktective 6y agohttps://i.imgur.com/JpP1UNg.png https://i.imgur.com/JpP1UNg.png
- logix 6y agoAlso check out Ksnip: https://github.com/ksnip/ksnip https://github.com/ksnip/ksnip
- throwaway03123 6y agoI've been using flameshot for years. It's actually part of a scripted workflow for me to transfer notes to my tablet from my desktop. Great piece of software.
- arminiusreturns 6y agoFlameshot is awesome, and in my list of daily used tools. I especially like the color picker and annotation tools, which I abuse far too often. Its in my list of awesome gplv3 tools.
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- pentagrama 6y agoLooks great! I'm on Windows and I use https://getsharex.com/ https://getsharex.com/ which is open source too but only for Windows https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX Will check Flameshot, if is good enough to match my experience with ShareX I will consider make the switch. I prefer use tools that are available on Linux to increase the visibility of Linux! I believe that if we make more popular (by using and recommending) tools that are available in Windows/Mac _and_ Linux, more people will have no issues to switch to Linux (eg: VLC, Inkscape, Gimp, Krita, LibreOffice, Kdenlive). I have Ubuntu as a secondary OS because sadly I'm hostage of Adobe CS :( Will spread the word! Now looking for the Windows installer on the download page https://flameshot.org/download/ https://flameshot.org/download/ to install it on my PC, I see that is not very handy, the download page links to the latest release page on GitHub who don't have the Windows installer yet https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/releases/tag/v0.8.5 https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/releases/tag/v0.8... The previous version have it! https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/releases/tag/v0.8.4 https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/releases/tag/v0.8... I think that an UX improvement for most users of the download page will be have the direct link to download the latest installer (.msi) instead of link to the latest release page on GitHub with all the binaries, witch can be confusing (besides that now is not even in the latest release). And put the link of latest release page on GitHub as a secondary link.
- anotheryou 6y agoOn windows shareX is king. I'd say a good bit better even (miss it on my linux machine where I use flameshot) https://getsharex.com/ https://getsharex.com/ A few things it does: https://i.imgur.com/FMMrVml.png https://i.imgur.com/FMMrVml.png - uploads text from your clipboard to pastebins and images to your image hoster - ftp upload (copying the http path to what you uploaded, full control over file naming ect). I built something to upload markdown via ftp and copy a url with the filename as an argument to the clipboard. That url leads to a js renderer for markdown. - doing mp4 videos Only downsides: a bit complex in the settings, wants to update often. - numbering tool to quickly ad step 1, 2,3 to screenshots.
- kryptn 6y agoI also use and love sharex. I have it set up to use a digitalocean space (s3 compatible bucket) as its upload target.
- millzlane 6y agoI was using Greenshot because of the default configuration. But left for ShareX because of the Mp4 videos and Gifs. You're correct about the settings. But that's what I love about it too. I was able to mimic GS's default behavior in ShareX.
- svnpenn 6y agoShareX is extremely bloated, complicated and slow. I used it for a few years, because it was marginally better than SnagIt.
- scpedicini 6y agoIt also lets you do really interesting things like set up a time lapse so that it'll take screenshots every interval and be able to make animated GIF files.
- lebaux 6y agoMy personal experience is that I never used 10% of the features ShareX had, or so rarely It never made sense.
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- captn3m0 6y agoI did a run of all “packages in main repo” screenshot tools for ArchLinux. Flameshot has an easy UX, and does everything that other tools do, plus a bit more.
- client4 6y agoI loved Flameshot! Though as far as I'm aware it still doesn't work with Wayland.
- psadauskas 6y agoI wish there were one of these tools for linux that had nicer effects, like Skitch or Cleanshot. The annotations like arrows and text need a high-contrast border and drop shadow to make them more visible. I used Flameshot for awhile but its annotations are flat, and Spectacle + Krita was nice but too heavy to just quickly annotate an image. I'm using KSnip now, which applies a shadow to the annotations, but there's no way to configure a nice border.
- jhoechtl 6y agolast time i tried it it had no Wayland support. did that change?
- approxim8ion 6y agoIt works on GNOME and KDE on Wayland now AFAIK. Still no bueno on sway or other Wayland envs.
- 7fYZ7mJh3RNKNaG 6y agoOnly thing I dislike from Flameshot is the "forced" compression of the screenshots. I only found out recently due to a need to have a non compressed screenshot, that in Ubuntu, Shift+Print seems to do the trick (uncompressed area screenshot).
- lebaux 6y agoMaybe open an issue on GitHub? https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/issues/ https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/issues/
- oeeq 6y agoI'm using it on linux many years. Good tool.
- mfkp 6y agoThe last time I tried flameshot, it didn't have any cloud upload options other than imgur. I'd like for s3 compatible uploads (or at the very least dropbox), so I ended up switching to https://screencloud.net/ https://screencloud.net/ - no annotation and lighter features, but I can still upload to the cloud of my choice.
- Cloudef 6y agoI tried to use this but half of the commandline stuff doesn't work, there is no warning or error messages, screenshots don't get saved anywhere. Back to trusty old scrot I guess.
- pcthrowaway 6y ago"What else could we want in a screensh... oh, my, god"
- spacemanmatt 6y agoThat perfectly describes my sentiment, too. I did not know I needed this until I had it.
- kvz 6y agoI’ve mapped it to my PrintScreen button on my desktop, but on my laptop it is sadly unusable because Flameshot does not support fractional scaling. There’s an open issue in GitHub https://github.com/lupoDharkael/flameshot/issues/564 https://github.com/lupoDharkael/flameshot/issues/564 with many folks hitting this but it doesn’t look like the project is maintained
- lebaux 6y agoThe dev of Flameshot burned out a bit, BUT the development was picked up by new maintainers, one of which is NameCheap dev. Project was moved under new organization and the "power" was diversified in multiple parties. It was a whole process, you can read about it here https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/issues/789 https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/issues/789
- corytheboyd 6y agoOh nice! I was migrating my dev environment from an ancient MBP to a Linux machine a few months ago and found Flameshot when looking for a Skitch replacement. Have been a happy user since, it functionally does all the things I need it to do :)
- audiometry 6y agoSkitch was so good until Evernote bought abs destroyed it. Such a shame.
- Daegalus 6y agoI use Flameshot on Linux and Lightshot on Windows. both have similar UIs and experiences.
- weitzj 6y agoI do love flameshot. I am still searching for a good Gif recorder for Linux which works with i3. On OSX a good gif recorder was licecap
- drocan 6y agopeek (https://github.com/phw/peek https://github.com/phw/peek) is decent, only issue is that setting the size of the capture area is a bit fiddly
- lebaux 6y agoI use https://github.com/phw/peek https://github.com/phw/peek on i3wm on Manjaro without any problems. For full screen recording, OBS feels the like the best option.
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- spacemanmatt 6y agoI started using Flameshot several months ago. I did not know I needed a deluxe screenshot utility. I definitely needed one.
- marstall 6y agoI just came here to say ... monosnap. https://monosnap.com https://monosnap.com
- maximente 6y agono GNU/linux support, behind a signup wall