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Re: Flameshot – Simple, powerful screenshot tool for all major operating systems

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Post by roenxi » Sat, Mar 13, 2021, 2:02 PM UTC

When it says "supports Wayland" does it actually mean that Wayland upped the game to support screenshots at the protocol level, or is this all the major compositors have settled on a de-facto screenshot standard to implement in parallel to Wayland?

Because I don't think, technically, it is possible for a screenshot tool to "support Wayland".

Re: Flameshot – Simple, powerful screenshot tool for all major operating systems

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Post by flixic » Sat, Mar 13, 2021, 2:03 PM UTC

If you're looking for a screenshot tool for macOS, I cannot recommend CleanShot X highly enough. It in the league of its own, with scroll capture, gifs, even changing your desktop in the screenshot, but not "in reality". I'm really impressed.

Re: Flameshot – Simple, powerful screenshot tool for all major operating systems

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Post by seppel » Sat, Mar 13, 2021, 2:03 PM UTC

djhworld wrote: post #27

I wish this tool existed on MacOS, being able to annotate screenshots in such a fluid manner was a great feature on Linux.

Literally the first sentence of the linked page is "Improved MacOS support. MacOS is now officially supported and we will resolve any reported issues on this platform."

However, I think build-in screenshot tools (that even can take videos) in Macos are already quite powerful. What do you miss?

Re: Flameshot – Simple, powerful screenshot tool for all major operating systems

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Post by Reventlov » Sat, Mar 13, 2021, 2:06 PM UTC

Not working completely as intended here (sway, nixos): it can take a single screenshot, and then later executions fail with those messages: http://0x0.st/-Z6n.txt

I like the direct upload to imgur though.

Re: Flameshot – Simple, powerful screenshot tool for all major operating systems

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Post by robmsmt » Sat, Mar 13, 2021, 2:08 PM UTC

Glad this tool exists I have just moved to it. The main thing missing in my opinion to record a video as a gif.

Re: Flameshot – Simple, powerful screenshot tool for all major operating systems

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Post by vanous » Sat, Mar 13, 2021, 2:09 PM UTC

Using it daily, Flameshot is great! Two wishes I would love to be able to add arrows to an existing, previously arrowed+labeled screenshot, rather then having to redo it again, so the style matches. Also, adding captured screenshots to the list of recent files (in his example Nautilus) would be awesome.

Re: Flameshot – Simple, powerful screenshot tool for all major operating systems

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Post by I_am_tiberius » Sat, Mar 13, 2021, 2:11 PM UTC

For users who like flameshot: I found ksnip even more compelling as it has more annotation features and tabs.

Re: Flameshot – Simple, powerful screenshot tool for all major operating systems

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Post by scythe » Sat, Mar 13, 2021, 2:28 PM UTC

roenxi wrote: post #31

When it says "supports Wayland" does it actually mean that Wayland upped the game to support screenshots at the protocol level, or is this all the major compositors have settled on a de-facto screenshot standard to implement in parallel to Wayland? Because I don't think, technically, it is possible for a screenshot tool to "support Wayland".

According to the website, it has "experimental" support for GNOME and Plasma (KDE) on Wayland, with Sway added as of the latest version (0.9). As far as I'm aware those three account for most Wayland desktops in the wild, but maybe I'm missing something.

Re: Flameshot – Simple, powerful screenshot tool for all major operating systems

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Mar 13, 2021, 2:29 PM UTC

roenxi wrote: post #31

When it says "supports Wayland" does it actually mean that Wayland upped the game to support screenshots at the protocol level, or is this all the major compositors have settled on a de-facto screenshot standard to implement in parallel to Wayland? Because I don't think, technically, it is possible for a screenshot tool to "support Wayland".

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Re: Flameshot – Simple, powerful screenshot tool for all major operating systems

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Post by scaladev » Sat, Mar 13, 2021, 2:32 PM UTC

chris_wot wrote: post #19

What is the best screen recorder?

OBS Studio + some mechanism to connect it to your compositor.

For wlroots-based compositors like sway here's the most lightweight solution: https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/wlrobs

For mutter (GNOME): https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal + pipewire