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Flameshot – Open-source screenshot software
- __fst__ 2y agoI use that daily. Very simple but has exactly the features I need.
- julius-fx 2y agoFlameshot is awesome, works very well with Linux Mint.
- dano 2y agoThis is a great piece of software that I use under Linux and MacOS
- heavyset_go 2y agoWorks great on Linux using Wayland. There was a period years ago when that wasn't the case.
- 0x1ch 2y agoYears ago? Try less than 12 months ago. I still have active bugs open in their issue tracker.
- heavyset_go 2y agoThat's been my experience. I've been using a rolling release distro and haven't had problems in years. There was a period where any screenshot/recording app didn't work at all, including Flameshot, due to limitations in Wayland implementations.
- SpaghettiCthulu 2y agoIt doesn't work at all for me under hyprland.
- thekoma 2y agoWhile it works on Wayland for me, it feels much clunkier and less snappy than what it used to be on X.
- synergy20 2y agonever worked on ubuntu 22.04, I had to use xorg for that.
- skyyler 2y agoI initially installed for an ex-windows user that needed something similar to the snipping tool. I quickly started using it for myself, it's very very convenient.
- nikolay 2y agoThe reason I love is that I can create pixel-perfect screenhots and precisely pick what I want to cut out and, if necessary, add arrows, text, etc. It also allows you to copy into the Clipboard and now Facebook and others allow me to paste images, which saves me the effort of going through the file system.
- W3cUYxYwmXb5c 2y agoBeen using this for a few years now. First grabbed it because I wanted a linux alternative to ShareX, but now I use it on windows too. It's great!
- jayknight 2y agoCan you trigger it with the PrtScn key in windows like you can with sharex? I can't find an option for that.
- PenguinCoder 2y agoAmazingly useful, definitely powerful and easy to use software. I know I sound like I am just repeating the title, but that's my honest, user opinion too. Does what it says it does, does it well, and stays out of your way until you want to use it.
- alexzeitler 2y agoGreat tool, using it for several years already.
- arminiusreturns 2y agoLove flameshot, use it all the time! It was part of my move to try to make as much of my stack GPL as possible.
- Pr0ject217 2y agoLove it.
- programmertote 2y agoI have been using it recently and like it. It is MUCH better than Windows native snipping software. It is also open source and free, so that's an added bonus. Having said that, I wish we can select the objects (e.g., text box, arrows) we have created and move them around. Right now, we can only undo and if an arrow is drawn a few steps before and now you want to reorient its head, you are out of luck. In the past (4-5 years ago), I used to use Jing (now called TechSmith Capture) and liked it a lot: https://www.techsmith.com/jing-tool.html https://www.techsmith.com/jing-tool.html and liked it. But I think the company decided to remove some features and/or require some sort of account creation; on top of that, it (if I remember correctly) kind of lost its earlier simplicity, so I stopped using it.
- runsonrum 2y agoI think you can move objects around but I believe you have to de-select the tool first. Try pressing ESC first to deselect. Going off of my poor memory.
- diogotito 2y ago> Having said that, I wish we can select the objects (e.g., text box, arrows) we have created and move them around. […] On Windows I like to use Greenshot because the editor opens up in a dedicated window and gives me full control over the objects I place (move, resize, change colors, duplicate, cut-copy-paste, reorder, save objects to file for reuse...). It's also open source, but seems unmaintained for some time now (but there is a fork implementing zoom in the editor).
- hobs 2y agoIf you are on windows ShareX blows almost everything else out of the water imo, the GIF/movie capture feature is great.
- wackget 2y agoHaving briefly tried it I have to say it's not as clear or easy to use as ShareX (another open-source screenshot tool). The monochrome icons are really not intuitive or easy to discern at a glance. Another commenter asks why it's not possible to trigger with the PrtScn key and I would also think that is an essential feature.
- rcv 2y agoI have the PrtScn key set up to open flameshot on my PopOS machine and it works great. I just followed the instructions here: https://flameshot.org/docs/guide/key-bindings/#on-ubuntu-and-other-gnome-based-distros https://flameshot.org/docs/guide/key-bindings/#on-ubuntu-and...
- runsonrum 2y agoI found it to be the exact opposite. ShareX has a lot of features which makes it hard to quickly get your head around all its clutter, when sometimes all you want to a screenshot utility. Flameshot has key bindings just like any other screenshot program. If the shortcut is already bound by another program, then it will not let you bind it to Flameshot, I believe. I have been using Flameshot portable for years and it isn't without missing features but I keep coming back to it. I generally use the copy function, sometimes save to location. It would be good to have a built in editor that can be loaded after the action.
- Saris 2y agoWhy not just use the built in system screenshot tool if you just want to copy or save? ShareX can pop up an editor after a screenshot which I do use a lot.
- runsonrum 2y agoMy apologies as I was not clear. Copy or Save after crop, and arrows, numbers etc. Thank you for pointing out that ShareX has an editor. I was aware that it has that feature but I do not remember the specifics on why I went back to Flameshot. The lacking features of Flameshot is that once you move away from the editor, you can not go back and make alterations. Not that I am aware of anyway.
- I_am_tiberius 2y agoI find it ok as I'm on a Mac now. On Linux, I used KSnip which was incredible (doesn't work well on Mac). Nowadays I would use Spectacle on Linux.
- hu3 2y agoCan this do OCR? I couldn't find in feature list so I'm guessing not yet. I use Windows native screenshot tool because it supports OCR.
- jerbear4328 2y agoIs that on Windows 11? The Windows 10 tool doesn't, though there is a PowerToys feature to select an area and copy text (not accurate enough to be useful though).
- hu3 2y agoWindows 11. Pro version but it shoudn't make a difference. https://www.pcworld.com/article/2070861/windows-snipping-tool-gets-text-recognition-for-screenshots.html https://www.pcworld.com/article/2070861/windows-snipping-too... I press Win+Shift+S then select the region of the text.
- boomboomsubban 2y agoPiping a screenshot to tesseract seems easy, a quick search shows a plugin available to do so and no shortage of scripts.
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- cloudking 2y agoI'm still looking for a Windows version of https://screen.studio https://screen.studio
- sdenike 2y agoSame! I haven’t come across anything like it yet.
- cloudking 2y agoI found https://getrapidemo.com/ https://getrapidemo.com/ but looks like it's still under development
- linhns 2y agoBecause of how much optimized it is for MacOS, it may take very long or even never be on Windows. Similar to Zed.
- LooseMarmoset 2y agoI discovered this when I was playing around with i3wm a few years ago. It's a really nice piece of software that does what you need it to do, and it stays out of your way otherwise. I mostly use it for screenshots, but it can edit and annotate, and pin images.
- dang 2y agoRelated: Flameshot v11.0.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30071766 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30071766 - Jan 2022 (30 comments) Flameshot – Simple, powerful screenshot tool for all major operating systems - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26446070 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26446070 - March 2021 (125 comments) Flameshot – Superb Screenshot Tool - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26113753 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26113753 - Feb 2021 (83 comments)
- mergy 2y agoIt's been the best option for a while now on Linux IMHO. I was a long time SnagIt user on Windows and when I went Linux full-time, I tried all different options but the ability to snapshot and markup quickly are key. Works well in XFCE, KDE Plasma, and Cinnamon - notso in Gnome because, well, Gnome. I wish it did video too. Until it does, I am using SimpleScreenRecorder - which is okay.
- geoka9 2y agoI use the following script (activated by a system-level shortcut key) to take a screenshot, upload to S3 bucket (using the minio client[0]) and place the URL in the X selection buffer, ready to be pasted: #!/bin/bash set -e dbus-update-activation-environment DISPLAY XAUTHORITY FNAME=`cat /dev/urandom | tr -cd 'a-f0-9' | head -c 32`.png flameshot gui --raw > /tmp/$FNAME ~/go/bin/mc -q cp --attr x-amz-acl=public-read /tmp/$FNAME s3/your.s3.bucket/dir/$FNAME echo -n https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/your.s3.bucket/dir/$FNAME | xsel [0] https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/reference/minio-mc.html https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/reference/minio-mc.html
- wzyboy 2y agoI have a similar setup but with SHA256 hash of the file as the object key.
- aendruk 2y agoIn mine the hash is encoded as z-base-32 and namespaced with an uncommon first character: $ publish example.png https://example.com/+umk3cm5cah5akbqeueq8914zimfktoih And for when it matters, the filename can optionally be attached: $ publish --named example.png https://example.com/+umk3cm5cah5akbqeueq8914zimfktoih $ http --headers 'https://example.com/+umk3cm5cah5akbqeueq8914zimfktoih' | grep 'Content-Disposition' Content-Disposition: inline; filename="example.png"
- sandinmyjoints 2y agoI forget, do you pay for bandwidth serving from S3 in this case? I have been looking for a good screenshot hosting solution to replace Cloudup, which was perfect and still usually works but I figure it might stop any day now. My only worry would be the unlikely case of a surprise high bill from a screenshot gone viral or something along those lines.
- djbusby 2y agoDoesn't R2 have no egress fee?
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- phkahler 2y agoWouldn't it make more sense to separate the screenshot functionality and dump that into a separate editor - configurable which editor. Or do these utilities combine the functionality in some inseparable way?
- procarch2019 2y agoI actually rebound my windows keys to use this instead of default windows snippet tool. Sure, if I need a high level of editing I’ll bring it into some other program (still using flame shot to take a capture). 95% the built in arrows, boxes, numbers, etc do the quick attention calling I need. Bonus, this was a piece of ‘bloatware’ an admin rebuilt my computer with, but I came to love.
- jcelerier 2y agoA great example of how to use Qt to make very neat, useful and feature-packed cross-platform software at a very low cost
- cmcconomy 2y agogreat app. I use the rectangle, arrow, and numbering annotation tools frequently
- SV_BubbleTime 2y agoNumbering tool is a nice touch. Click click click, paste in email and reference the numbers… much more clear than arrows and scribbles all over the place.
- Ameo 2y agoThis is my go-to screenshot tool for Linux; I've been using it almost daily for years now. It's by no means as feature-rich as ShareX for Windows, but it works perfectly for what I need. It covers the essentials like simple annotations, blocking out areas of screenshots, saving local copies, etc. I made some tweaks to support my own custom image uploader API, and similar to the comment by geoka9, I have it set up to take a screenshot, upload to my app, and copy the URL into my clipboard all behind a single shortcut.
- bnj 2y agoIs there any feature rich open source option for MacOS? I use and enjoy free shot on windows but I’ve struggled to find good options for the mac
- vaillant 2y agoMacOS has pretty strong screenshot capabilities out of the box; honestly, makes me want the same for Windows.
- elrostelperien 2y agoFlameshot works on macOS, too.
- CraftThatBlock 2y agoI use Flameshot on Linux, and I've found that Shottr works great on macOS.
- dugmartin 2y agoI use this nearly everyday on my Linux desktop - works great.
- dbg31415 2y agoSkitch is still better. But this is promising.
- sdenike 2y agoThis is great but I wish it had other storage options outside of Imgur. I use Dropshare on Mac and have it upload to my Nextcloud instance which also creates the share URL.
- yellow_postit 2y agoOn Mac I swear by CleanShot X [1] which has more than justified its price many times over for me. [1] https://cleanshot.com/ https://cleanshot.com/
- shepherdjerred 2y agoI agree, CleanShot X is the best thing I've found. Open to any alternatives that someone knows about, though!
- pixelmonkey 2y agoThis is my go-to screenshot tool on Linux. For Linux users who also use Google Photos already, you may not realize this but the Google Photos web app accepts paste from system clipboard via Ctrl+V in the browser. Thus, my workflow if I want to save a screenshot for later is to call up flameshot in rectangular selection mode (I bind it to the PrtScn key), select my screenshot area, Ctrl+C to copy it to clipboard, navigate to GPhotos web app via address bar / bookmark bar shortcut, and Ctrl+V to upload there. The nice thing about this is that GPhotos recognizes it as a screenshot (so I can find it on my phone later, too, for example). And, GPhotos also automatically indexes any text within the screenshot, so free text search can often find it, too. If I need the screenshot as a file for some other purpose, I'll navigate to it in GPhotos and use Shift+D to download it. I can also use GPhotos to privately share the screenshot with someone via their email address, or get a tokenized link for it. Just sharing this tip because I notice a lot of people hunt around for cloud storage for desktop screenshots. But Google Photos works pretty well for this purpose already, if you use the paste-to-upload trick!
- qmarchi 2y agoLooks like there's a Google Photos API, so you could concievably make a full chain to upload screenshots automatically. https://developers.google.com/photos https://developers.google.com/photos
- xhrpost 2y agoMy employer uses Gmail/gdrive so I just use the gDrive sync tool to auto upload my entire screen shot folder.
- brightball 2y agoI just store screenshots to a Dropbox folder. It’s worked great for me for years with Flameshot.
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- pentagrama 2y agoThe UI and features look well-polished. I use ShareX, another open-source tool but only available for Windows. However, a crucial feature for me is quick screen recording (GIF or MP4), which Flameshot seems to lack. Does it have this feature? It's not mentioned on the landing page.
- just-tom 2y agoI use ShareX for mp4 and gif using CTRL+PrtSc / SHIFT+PrtSc and for image screenshot only PrtSc (currently lightshot, will aoon move to flameshot)
- graynk 2y agoOn Linux for screen recording I use Peek and I really like the approach You just resize Peek‘s transparent window over the part of the screen that you want and hit record https://github.com/phw/peek https://github.com/phw/peek
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- billwashere 2y agoFor the last 10(ish) years I've been using Greenshot [1]. I haven't found any issues with it but it is only available on Windows and Mac. [1] https://getgreenshot.org/ https://getgreenshot.org/
- winrid 2y agoGreenshot is great! I use it on Windows, and ksnip on everything else atm as it has similar draw arrows/annotation features.
- ASalazarMX 2y agoIf ksnip is cross-platform, may I ask why don't you use it everywhere, if it's so similar to Greenshot? BTW I've never heard of Ksnip before. I gotta try it.
- winrid 2y agoI haven't used Greenshot in a couple months, but I think I remember it being better than ksnip, will have to look again.
- zie 2y agoI don't understand the fascination with blur. It's terrible from a security/privacy perspective. The data is still in the image. Sure you can add randomization to the blur to make it less easy to undo(I haven't looked if Flameshot does or not, most don't). If you crop the stuff you want out of the image, there is no data there to do anything with. Every screenshot tool I've ever come across has a blur tool but no cut tool. So I just use the OS specific screenshoter and then load it up in an image editor and cut to my hearts content.
- __fst__ 2y agoI sometimes (but rarely) use blur to shift the attention focus on certain screen regions by blurring out other parts. Like an inverted highlighter. But mostly I actually use the highlighter function :-)
- MemphisTrain 2y agoFlameshot has a draw-rectangle function. So you can just draw a red or black rectangle on top of things.
- zie 2y agoAnd since it's a PNG file, I assume, It won't be layered! nice!
- eviks 2y agoWith blur there can also be no data (as you said -with randomization, you can even blur randomized text instead of the real one). But the fascination is easily explained - it looks better as it "fits" the rest of your image vs having some jarring black rectangle
- zie 2y ago> you can even blur randomized text instead of the real one I've never ever seen that in the wild, but that would def. make it sane to use the blur tool.
- SoftTalker 2y agoFor screenshots I use 'scrot' and then open the image in gimp if I need to crop or edit further. Seems very simple to me and avoids browsers, cloud storage, and other potential pitfalls. https://github.com/resurrecting-open-source-projects/scrot https://github.com/resurrecting-open-source-projects/scrot
- Toorkit 2y agoFlameshot is local. May have a subscription service, not sure. But flameshot is extremely fast and does 95% of what I'd do in gimp anyway, without having to open a whole image editor and saving a picture. I can directly copy it to the clipboard and paste it somewhere.
- SoftTalker 2y agoYeah it sounds good, I just rarely do screenshots so I stick with what I know. If my workflow required a lot of screenshots I might either automate it a bit more or look at other tools. I'm actually about as likely to just pull out my phone and take a picture of the screen as to use software-based screenshots.
- cess11 2y agoI also use scrot, because it's simple. Almost always use 'scrot -s', so I get to do immediate cropping, and it's trivial to bind to a shortcut in i3wm.
- askvictor 2y agoThis is my screencap tool - the 'pin' feature is particularly useful when debugging things. One minor annoyance is it struggles with DPI scaling across screens (i.e. multi-screen with different scaling factors on different screens). There's a long thread on github with workarounds.
- whitefang 2y agoMy default screenshot tool on Linux, Mac and Windows. It works well. Not super cool with aesthetics but it's flawless so yeah.
- anotheryou 2y agoshareX for windows is king sadly (slight learning curve, but feature rich). miss it under Linux
- hermitcrab 2y agoSeems timely given that SnagIt has moved to a subscription model of £37 per year.
- v3ss0n 2y agoSpectacle from KDE and Flameshot both really good .
- wdfx 2y agoThe annotate/draw in-place in flameshot just made me convert from spectacle. Also on i3 spectacle is sometimes buggy, it misfires or loses the capture.
- v3ss0n 2y agoMight be old version? Plasma 6 spectacle have in place annotations and even video recording.
- I_am_tiberius 2y agoSpectacle is completely different now.
- pmontra 2y agoIt's good but be sure to notice and read the help, to learn how to change colors and sizes.
- smusamashah 2y agoFYI, [Win + Shift + S] is quickest way in windows to copy selected area to clipboard, if that's all you need. I use it nearly everyday for something e.g. posting snap of a code snippet or anything in slack to putting these clips in docs. EDIT: Just tried Flameshot and loved that I can draw while taking a snap, instead of opening a new window and do the drawing in that. Looks like this is going to replace Win+Shift+S for me.
- MaxikCZ 2y agoThats the reason I stopped using win+shift+S, to draw on snippet right away. Now if only I could do 2 snippets and merge them into one pastable immage in flameshot..
- glonq 2y ago> FYI, [Win + Shift + S] is quickest way in windows to copy selected area to clipboard, if that's all you need. Nowadays (at least for me on Win11) it's also bound to the PRNTSCRN button, which is a nice way to redeem an otherwise anachronistic key.
- elric 2y agoI just use ImageMagick's "import", and if I need to annotate the screenshot I have a shortcut to screenshot and open it in gimp.
- dspillett 2y agoI've been using ShareX (https://getsharex.com/ https://getsharex.com/) for some years, which is also open-source, and very featureful while not feeling too bloated, though Windows only. I'll have to have a look at this next time I'm on a Linux desktop, as I found the options lacking compared to ShareX last time I looked.
- Liquidor 2y agoI use ShareX for Windows and Flameshot for Linux. I wish ShareX worked for Linux. It's so good.
- Gormo 2y agoI use Flameshot combined with Tesseract and zbarimg to quickly clip areas of the screen and either OCR them or decode barcodes, which I then map to hotkey combinations. For example, I have `bash -c 'flameshot gui -s -r | tesseract - - | gxmessage -title "Decoded Data" -fn "Consolas 12" -wrap -geometry 640x480 -file -'` mapped to Super+O, so I can just press the key combo, select a region of the screen, and have the OCRed text immediately displayed in a dialog box from gxmessage (which accounts for most of the command line). Replace 'tesseract' with 'zbarimg' and you have a barcode scanner.
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- noisy_boy 2y agoGreat idea - I ended up experimenting to improve the ocr accuracy: #!/bin/bash screenshot=$(mktemp) decoded_data=$(mktemp) processed_data=$(mktemp) cleanup() { rm "$screenshot" "$decoded_data" "$processed_data" } trap cleanup EXIT flameshot gui -s -r > "$screenshot" convert "$screenshot" \ -colorspace Gray \ -scale 1191x2000 \ -unsharp 6.8x2.69+0 \ -resize 500% \ "$screenshot" tesseract \ --dpi 300 \ --oem 1 "$screenshot" - > "$decoded_data" grep -v '^\s*$' "$decoded_data" > "$processed_data" cat "$processed_data" | \ xclip -selection clipboard yad --text-info --title="Decoded Data" \ --width=940 \ --height=580 \ --wrap \ --fontname="Iosevka 14" \ --editable \ --filename="$processed_data"
- Gormo 2y agoNice! Once you start getting complex, a standalone script might be a good idea. But it should be noted that your ImageMagick processing can also be inserted into the original one-liner: bash -c 'flameshot gui -s -r | convert - -colorspace Gray -scale 1191x2000 -unsharp 6.8x2.69+0 -resize 500% png:- | tesseract - - | gxmessage -title "Decoded Data" -fn "Consolas 12" -wrap -geometry 640x480 -file -'
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- Epskampie 2y agoI prefer shutter. It's way uglier, but also has some features others don't have, like a history of shots, so you can make several in a row.
- tmcdos 2y agoFor the last 10+ years I am using portable WinSnap (it is Windows only) - just 3 Mb, does not need .NET, can conveniently snapshop the current window, all windows of the current application, whole desktop or just a selected area. Has some built-in filters (mirror, border, watermark, negative, grayscale, blur) but most importantly - allows moving around or deleting the annotations individually after their creation (unlike Flameshot). Can not recommend any other screenshoting software.
- alan-hn 2y agoFlameshot is great, I've been using it for years. I love being able to draw and add annotations in the moment I take the screen shot
- giancarlostoro 2y agoI have wanted this for ages, didn't know Flameshot did this or I would have tried it much sooner. It's the only thing missing from any screenshot utility I use.
- SV_BubbleTime 2y agoI needed a screenshot software when I moved to Linux Desktop last year. Flameshot (despite being available on Windows) helped make that transition really pleasant! I mentally put it in the LINUX HAS BEEN GOOD column.
- alan-hn 2y agoThat's actually how I found it too, the drawing and annotations were just the cherry on top
- incomingpain 2y agoFlameshot is awesome.
- SV_BubbleTime 2y agoMy long standing request has been SMOOTHING for the hand drawn pencil tool. I want a smoothing slider so I can draw a circle and an arrow with the mouse and not have it look like I have sever palsy with a sclerosis topper. Maybe someday.
- betimsl 2y agoYou know what Flameshot needs? A color picker and even w/o it, it's a very good piece of software.
- bjoli 2y agoIf you use gnome you can use eyedropper
- tveyben 2y agoGreenshot have great features - but i need to test flamshot ad it (also) looks promising…
- stronglikedan 2y agoVery nice, but I gotta give Greenshot the edge here, strictly from a usability standpoint.
- xpil 2y agoI'm a big fan of Greenshot. My only issue with it is that it's not available on Linux, which I use occasionally. Re Flameshot, I've tried it and it generally works well for me. My only beef is that the layout of the icons around the captured area is dynamic, changing based on the shape and size of the area, requiring me to actively search for an icon instead of finding it in a static, predictable location.
- weinzierl 2y agoI worked for an organization with more than 150000 employees. All their PCs had Greenshot pre-installed and it was part of their standard software. Greenshot was used a ton over more than a decade, maybe still is, and (observed from my limited view) loved very much. They never payed a cent to the developer - shame on them.
- Jerry2 2y agoI've been using it for years. Being able to quickly add arrows and highlights is fantastic. My only wish is for it to be able to open existing files. I wish I could just open an image, make some edits, and save it. Unfortunately, you can only make edits to screenshots.
- canpolat 2y agoThis is the tool I have been looking for quite some time. I don't know why my searches returned only the simplest screenshot tools that are available on Linux. I have been using ShareX on Windows and was surprised to not find a similarly powerful tool on Linux. Now, I know that it was because of my rusty duck-duck-fu (or search is basically useless nowadays). Thank you for sharing.