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Flameshot
- SV_BubbleTime 9mo agoIt’s VERY GOOD… But why the hell can’t we get pen smoothing? What if I want to use the pen tool but not make it look like I’m a child on several mediations?
- mog_dev 9mo agoHopefully wayland support will improve
- WinstonSmith84 9mo agoMaybe try Spectacle. I use the OOTB Spectacle app on Fedora KDE. It has the same features as Flameshot and is .. well, native. But on my Mac, I use indeed Flameshot, it's not ideal (the window is "shrinking" when a screenshot is captured), but it's better than any alternative I tried.
- koiueo 9mo agoWhy would you use anything but Shottr on macOS? I'm not affiliated, but the software is simply on a whole different level. They deserve all the fame.
- imcritic 9mo agoBecause it's a black box you have to pay for. No source code available? Gitafuckouttahere.
- koiueo 9mo ago> Because it's a black box [...]. No source code available? You know Shottr is only available for macOS, don't you? If source code is so important, why do you even bother using macOS? I wouldn't install Shottr on any of my Linux machines, even if available. Despite it being objectively better than any available alternative. I'd recreate one myself if necessary. But on a corporate Mac, where 99.999% of executed code is a black box, why bother?
- shoobiedoo 9mo agoHuh? I'm running kde plasma on wayland and flameshot runs like a dream come true. I hit the flameshot icon in the tray, it automatically selects the whole screen to save, or if I click it starts cropping wherever I move the mouse. It's like the devs read my mind for exactly what I wanted
- direwolf20 9mo agoEvery Wayland compositor has a different feature set, and KDE is one of the more open to implementing features. It's likely that other people have compositors that stubbornly refuse to implement screenshots for security reasons.
- shoobiedoo 9mo agoI see. Thank you for the explanation
- fenazego 9mo agoI'm running the same, but for me it's definitely not a smooth experience compared to plasma + X. Indeed I resorted to clicking on tray icon because invocation from custom shortcut doesn't allow me to Ctrl-c (copy to clipboard). On the other hand, clicking from tray breaks Ctrl-s (save to file). Oh, well.
- cullenking 9mo agoFlameshot is the best! I've been using it for 10+ years. I have it wired up to some hot keys in my window manager, and have it dump to s3 so I can paste around links to screenshots everywhere for work. https://github.com/kingcu/screendrop https://github.com/kingcu/screendrop
- philsnow 9mo ago> dump to s3 so I can paste around links to screenshots everywhere for work This has got to be the "todo list app" for people who aren't app devs; mine [0] is for MacOS + launchd + hammerspoon and I use Shottr for annotation [0] https://github.com/philsnow/shots-filed https://github.com/philsnow/shots-filed
- cheschire 9mo agoyep, I bound it to win+shift+s like the screenshots in windows when I made the flip to full time linux a couple years ago. Fell in absolute love with the controls though. Way more powerful than windows screenshots.
- KomoD 9mo ago> and have it dump to s3 so I can paste around links to screenshots everywhere for work. I wanted something like this too but I modified Flameshot so I don't need a bash script in-between. Flameshot already has a feature to upload to Imgur so I modified that and also added some small things (like randomized file names, some new config options).
- iLemming 9mo ago> Flameshot already has a feature to upload to Imgur Didn't they remove it though? Because someone complained about "privacy" or something? Devs promised to bring it back as the plugin, but I wasn't following progress on it, I don't know if that happened yet.
- dheera 9mo agoIt stopped working for me after I switched to Wayland
- vitaminCPP 9mo agoGreat software. On a small note: This recent PR is both awesome and pretty funny to me. https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/pull/4498#issue-3863178293 https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/pull/4498#issue-3...
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- simtel20 9mo agoOh, thanks for the link. I've been using flameshot for most of the past decade, but haven't been able to use it with pop-os and my monitors recently because it was derotating my monitor.
- oldandboring 9mo agoMan I hope this delivers. I haven't been able to use Flameshot for over a year since switching to Wayland because weird shit happens with my multi-monitor setup.
- weaksauce 9mo agoyeah i tried it the other day because spectacle feels lacking and it completely failed on my multimonitor kde wayland setup.
- oldandboring 9mo agoI will say that over time I've adjusted to Spectacle. Having it pinned to the taskbar is a good approximation of having Flameshot in the tray. Also a nice thing about Spectacle is that the window persists after you take a screenshot so you can then initiate, for example, 'New rectangular region' and it will launch you back into sceenshot mode with a rectangle of the same dimensions as the one you just took -- making it well suited for iterating with an AI coding assistant where I give it a screenshot with examples of a bug, then re-send it another screenshot showing what still needs work.
- vzaliva 9mo agoFlameshot is great! It was one of the reasons I have not switched to Wayland. Although it seems now they have wayland support in beta.
- ktm5j 9mo agoI think it's beta for a reason. I just tried the appimage for their latest release and it's behaving in the same broken way that I remember. I have a multi-monitor setup with different size & resolution screens, so that may be a factor for the problems I'm having. Really hope it'll work someday.
- nickjj 9mo agoThe good news is a few lines of shell scripting, grim, slurp and satty can be combined to create a decent alternative. Hit a hotkey, capture a region, get presented with a way to annotate it and easily copy it to your clipboard or write it to disk. I use it on a multi-monitor system and it works no problem with Wayland. Here's an example from my dotfiles: https://github.com/nickjj/dotfiles/blob/master/.local/bin/dot-screenshot https://github.com/nickjj/dotfiles/blob/master/.local/bin/do... It supports capturing a region, a specific window or the focused monitor.
- dfc 9mo agoFlameshot with sway has been a nightmare for me. I have tried a couple of times but i have never gotten it to work. I have settled with grimshot. The biggest missed feature is the number annotator. It was so easy with flameshot to annotate a screenshot with 1-9 and then refer to each number in a document. I really miss flameshot:(
- nickjj 9mo agoThe solution I posted includes an incrementing number annotator btw. Satty has a lot of great features. You can even capture the whole screen so that you can crop it after you've done your annotation which is similar to how Flameshot works.
- garymoon 9mo agoI love flameshot, before it I used Shutter and I don't regret switching to Flameshot whatsoever. I use it on my work and personal laptops (Debian+xfce4)
- koiueo 9mo agoShutter is great in terms of features. I just recently discovered it. But its code... Thousands (like definitely over 10k) of lines of procedural perl. I had a feature in mind I wanted to contribute and I couldn't even scratch the surface. I doubt this software can evolve any further.
- jszymborski 9mo agowoah, had no idea Shutter was written in Perl
- julius-fx 9mo agoLove flameshot. Did my due diligence for screenshot tools, found it, and never tried anything else again :)
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- tomcam 9mo ago> You did exactly zero code audit. Couldn't see how you derived that from GP? You read their mind?
- saintfire 9mo agoThis isn't some brand new vibe-coded software trying to propagate malware on HN. It is and has been a solid screenshot choice for a long time and has existed as OSS for a decade.
- jojomodding 9mo agoIndeed, I've been using for (2) years, ever since I switched to Wayland.
- throwway120385 9mo agoI used Flameshot for half a decade until about 2 years ago when I switched to whatever comes with KDE because I switched to KDE from Gnome. So no, not malware. It's just existed for quite a while.
- brightball 9mo agoSame. I tried probably 6-7 different tools on Ubuntu before I found Flameshot. It was everything I was looking for.
- socalgal2 9mo agoThis has the same issue as most screenshot software, it's out of date relative to modern devices. Every Mac laptop for the last ~4 years has an HDR display. Many windows devices are also HDR. But this app doesn't capture HDR. I tried putting up an HDR image and then capturing the screen. All HDR brightness was gone from the image. I get it's not easy per-se. It wasn't until MacOS Tahoe that Apple's own screen capture on Mac started supporting HDR. Windows 10/11, AFAIK, only supports HDR through the XBox Game Bar's capture. Apps like ShareX still only capture SDR. I mostly bring that up because I have apps the draw HDR and spent some time trying to find ways to add tests that we're actually getting HDR on the screen using screen captures. I hit a wall and gave up (2021).
- landr0id 9mo ago>But this app doesn't capture HDR. When you say the Xbox game bar accounts for it, do you mean video or still images? I've had HDR disabled for some time but I remember win+shift+s on Windows 11 capturing over-exposed screenshots when playing videogames.
- Fabricio20 9mo agoThe Xbox Game Bar video and still images do support HDR. They were the first feature to support HDR on windows. More recently the Snipping Tool on 11 also supports HDR, but only the newer one, not the older snipping tool. If you get images in JXR (jpeg-xr) files then you have HDR, if you get over-exposed pngs/jpgs then it doesnt do HDR.
- dan-robertson 9mo agoThe readme suggests this is a Linux-first app and as HDR basically doesn’t work at all on Linux(?) I don’t think it’s very surprising that this app doesn’t handle it. It does a great job for my purposes – describing which buttons to click over email or im.
- kmarc 9mo agoHaven't used this app for ages, but yesterday I fine-tuned the HDR settings for my newly bought laptop under KDE/plasma, definitely on Linux. That readme might be outdated (or the tool doesn't work on KDE at all)
- haunter 9mo agoI wish ShareX was available on Linux https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX
- system2 9mo agoI agree. ShareX for Windows is flawless in my opinion.
- treovchinn 9mo agoit by default uploads screenshots to public imgur, which was surprising and a no go for corporate setting, you can change that in setting, but it is still wants too do too many things
- CubityFirst 9mo agoI'm vaguely involved w/ ShareX, so take this however you want. It doesn't as of a recent update (due to continued stability issues at Imgur). The default behavior is to not upload anymore. Additionally ShareX pops up a big red warning telling you that you're about to upload. There are some forks (see: ShareNot) that explicitly remove any uploading, but by default there is a registry key, a setting, and a big warning that you can enable that disables uploading.
- system2 9mo agoI always used my own FTP provider with my own URL. So they always looked like share.example.com/15udn18.jpg Embeddable as well. Anyone with a website should use this method so they can maximize the use of their hosting.
- anotheryou 9mo agoShareX (win) > CleanShot (mac, paid) > Fireshot just video is waaay better in cleanshot than it is in shareX (and a bit simpler to set up)
- tripflag 9mo agoGood news is there are ongoing efforts to make that happen; https://github.com/SnapXL/SnapX https://github.com/SnapXL/SnapX
- IshKebab 9mo agoHonestly the best screenshot software I've used so far is KDE's built-in printscreen thingy. I think it's called Spectacle. Does exactly all of the things you want - easy copying of regions, recording videos of regions (Wayland only unfortunately), annotation, etc. One of the few times in Linux land where the UX is actually significantly better than Windows or Linux, and there's basically no jank at all. (The only slight jank I noticed is that on X11 the "Screen recording" button just ... doesn't do anything. No "you need Wayland" message. Just nothing. I'll give it a pass though because the rest is so surprisingly great. Good job Spectacle authors!) I do use ShareX on Windows for video recordings but Spectacle is better.
- KetoManx64 9mo agoSpectacle is great. I tried to switch to it from Flameshot a few months back since it has all the features that I use regularly in Flameshot but ran into an issue where it would 2-3 times longer than Flameshot to start up when starting it up through the CLI. I use keymapper to map all my keyboard shortcuts and starting Spectacle using Qdbus is very slow compares to flameshot, like 1-2 seconds of waiting after pressing the hotkey compared to Flameshot being instant. Looks like someone found a workaround by having spectacle run as a systemd process and restart after closing though, I'll have to give it a try: https://discuss.kde.org/t/make-spectacle-launch-faster/38030/4 https://discuss.kde.org/t/make-spectacle-launch-faster/38030...
- morkalork 9mo agoI love flameshot and use it at work all the time for ridiculously marked-up and snarky screenshots to send co-workers or attach to JIRAs. Part of me wants to believe the "flame" in flameshot is for flaming people, like yes, you see this shit here? How about a nice big arrow so you don't fucking miss it
- gegtik 9mo agoincrease the border size. more. yes. in the bloodiest red. yes. its rectangle time
- onesandofgrain 9mo agoFlameshot like Lightshot the one on chrome?
- reboot81 9mo agoLightshot, if youre using it you should remove it and then google why.
- SV_BubbleTime 9mo agoIf you have something to say, say it. People don’t have the time to go investigate, but maybe you have something interesting to claim with a source. For all I know you found a way to tie some software to a politician you want me to hate, or the guy that wrote it donated to $50 to a cause you don’t like, or they murdered beagle puppies in some horrendous way. Just spit it out.
- burnermore 9mo agoYeah. This is like clickbait titles. They hate something something for something something reason and won't tell cos it's probably something small. They leave the comment making it look like the person made something huge. Only to find out that they didn't use the coaster while drinking his chilled beer. And I don't care about this instance, I am not going to look it up. I have far more negative vibes about the OP in question than Lightshot. Very bad dark pattern I've been seeing more and more these days.
- imtringued 9mo agoLightshot is a cloud-first screenshot tool. This means you shouldn't screenshot sensitive information. That's all I could find. Considering that there are many tools like ShareX where uploading the screenshot is a feature, I don't really see reboot81's poor attempt at "spreading awareness" as genuine.
- b1temy 9mo agoI used to really like this software, and I still do. But there were a couple of dealbreakers for me. 1) As others mentioned, Wayland support. But it seems that it's gotten a lot better since I last used it. I resisted using Wayland for a long time because of several software breaking, but I've switched over now that most of the things I use now work (or because I've stopped using things that don't work). 2) it was broken for me with fractional scaling. This is the main reason why I switched, I started using fractional scaling on my second monitor and could not properly fix it for the life of me. I haven't tested it recently, but I just checked, and the github issue seems to still be open. https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/issues/564 https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/issues/564
- shane_kerns 9mo agoOn my Mac all I see is a gray screen when I'm using the app. It used to work on my Mac until a year ago.
- tuananh 9mo agoksnip is pretty damn good too.
- sirtoffski 9mo agoWas looking to see if anyone had mentioned ksnip. Agreed, it’s great.
- _philipalan 9mo agoHow do you resize a rectangle made with the rectangle tool?
- richardanaya 9mo agoI love this app, use it all the time.
- gnabgib 9mo agoPopular in: 2022 (114 points, 30 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30071766 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30071766 2021 (335 points, 84 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26113753 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26113753
- roggenbuck 9mo agoFlameshot is excellent! I’ve been happily using it for years.
- syradar 9mo agoLove Flameshot! Been using it for years since its cross platform so it works on macOS at home and Windows at work.
- SubiculumCode 9mo agoFlameshot is the best. I don't know about HD, and maybe if I get a HD screen I'll find out, but right now it's the slickest
- self_awareness 9mo agoSpectacle for KDE is also a good choice. https://apps.kde.org/spectacle/ https://apps.kde.org/spectacle/ I found Flameshot to work flawlessly only on Linux X11 and Windows. Other platforms (Wayland, macOS) have problems.
- treovchinn 9mo agoanything would be better than win11 snipping tool, it is crazy that after win10 it stopped working across 2 monitors, you can only snip in one of the two monitors
- p2hari 9mo agoThis is one of the must have apps on my mac. Combined with hammerspoon or even Raycast, you can do quite a bit of things.
- honghe 9mo agoUse Flameshot with powertoys on windows 11, powertoys can remap shortcut: win+shift+f23 to PrintScreen.
- throwaway2037 9mo agoAs a long time (accidental) Flameshot user on Debian Linux, I was surprised to just now learn that Flameshot is written using the cross-platform C++ GUI library Qt. I guess that explains how it works on Microsoft Windows, Linux (X11/Wayland), and MacOS!
- akimbostrawman 9mo agoFlameshot is great! I also use it to capture different language text in images that gets piped into tesseract for offline OCR.
- major505 9mo agoI use it daily. Great little app for taking screenshots on mac, since the macapp is terrible, and the keyboard binding is even worse.
- figmert 9mo agoFlameshot isn't great on macOS, does anyone know of a good open source alternative they would recommend?
- rwbaskette 9mo agoFunny, I found flameshot years ago looking for a Linux to Skitch. What’s lacking in the built-in tool?
- figmert 9mo agoI'm unsure what Flameshot on macOS has to do with Flameshot Linux? I used to use Flameshot on Linux, and it works great, though I've always found the built-in screenshot software for Linux good enough. The application doesn't work as smoothly on macOS and I wouldn't need a tool for screenshots if the built-in tooling was any good. It's like it was designed by someone who had created a screenshot for the first time in their life.
- latexr 9mo agoHard to say without knowing what your needs are. What’s wrong with using macOS’ native tools? They work great not only for capturing but for annotation. What exactly are you looking for?
- figmert 9mo agoThe app has a constant item on the bar at the bottom. Quitting that quits the whole application, I couldn't find a setting to change this behaviour. But I could live with that if it wasn't for it somehow switching desktops when you start taking a screenshot. It switches desktop, goes back to the main one, then starts the set up. Of course that also means it takes a couple of seconds before the screenshot gets taken.
- asimovDev 9mo agowhat do you use Flameshot for on macOS? if you want to edit stuff, you can set the screenshot tool to open the screenshot in Preview.app where you can perform basic editing on it (cmd+shift+5 and then click Options and choose "Preview" in "Save to")
- marcusrm12 9mo agoLooks great!
- greuceanu42069 9mo agoThis is my go-to screenshot tool for Ubuntu. I've even gone as far as replacing the default printscreen with this using Custom Shortcuts. Word of warning, however: it is somehwat buggy when trying to add more than 1 text boxes on the screenshot.
- skeptrune 9mo agoFlameshot is fantastic software. Works great on Linux and gets the job done.
- duxup 9mo agoFlameshot is my go to on macOS.
- rhamonrye 9mo agoLocalising this in KDE + HDR in terms of clang improvements.
- _345 9mo agoI forget why but I ended up going back to Lightshot after trying this
- nikolay 9mo agoThis has been a savor for me! I'm tired of screenshot tools that don't let you precisely crop the shot and require you to use editing software. Flameshot with its magnifier is next level.