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

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

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post #45

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

Anyone else here who found Shutter to be quite handy? I tried flameshot once and don't really get how one would find it more useful than Shutter.

I think flameshot is more for people who prefer design over functionality. Although the feature set is not too bad. Does shutter have annotation features?

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

#52
The website doesn't really make it clear, but it supports Windows, MacOS and Linux (in all flavors).

Even though Windows now has a quite good screenshot story out-of-the-box with the Win+Shift+S shortcut, Flameshot seems to have some very nice annotation options that I haven't seen anywhere else.

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

#53
post #42

Recently gave up on Wayland (for the moment) due to the inability to screen share most applications on Google Meet. I realise this isn't really Wayland's fault, but that doesn't really solve my problem.

I can share screen with pipewire on Google Meet. It's not perfect, because you can select specific windows, but it works.

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

#54
post #42

Recently gave up on Wayland (for the moment) due to the inability to screen share most applications on Google Meet. I realise this isn't really Wayland's fault, but that doesn't really solve my problem.

Agreed, this is where I'm at as well. In general, I actually found sway to be wonderful, but it's not worth the hassle of switching over anytime I have a meeting where I could possibly need to screen share.

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

#55

Somewhat related, does anyone know of a working screen recorder for wayland? The gnome builtin one is broken on 20.04 and 20.10. There’s a fix upstream, but it doesn’t look like it’s going to make it to the repos for a while yet

Have you tried Peek?

https://github.com/phw/peek

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

#56

Somewhat related, does anyone know of a working screen recorder for wayland? The gnome builtin one is broken on 20.04 and 20.10. There’s a fix upstream, but it doesn’t look like it’s going to make it to the repos for a while yet

Wfrecorder [0] is what I use, doesn't have a fancy gui but it just works

0: https://github.com/ammen99/wf-recorder

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

#57

Somewhat related, does anyone know of a working screen recorder for wayland? The gnome builtin one is broken on 20.04 and 20.10. There’s a fix upstream, but it doesn’t look like it’s going to make it to the repos for a while yet

I use `wf-recorder`- it should work well, has worked well for me.

https://github.com/ammen99/wf-recorder

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

#58

The website doesn't really make it clear, but it supports Windows, MacOS and Linux (in all flavors). Even though Windows now has a quite good screenshot story out-of-the-box with the Win+Shift+S shortcut, Flameshot seems to have some very nice annotation options that I haven't seen anywhere else.

ShareX is native option in Windows, support screenshot, annotation, record screen as gif or video. And can upload to many services

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

#59
post #47

Don't get me wrong, Flameshot is a great tool, but this feels a bit like celebrating every turn after reinventing the wheel.

it kinda is. the whole wayland ecosystem is slowling taking shape month after month. and given the radical change that wayland is, most thing have to be re-implemented using radically different tooling, libraries and approaches, which is very similar to re-inventing.

Major distros have been shipping wayland as the default backend for almost five years! I mean, yes, it's a lot of work. But it was wildly premature, and the community support for this stuff has been nothing short of a disaster of apathy and ignorance.

Which is to say: what you say is true, but there's no excuse for breaking screenshots (!) for half a decade in the name of "progress".

(And I say that as someone who genuinely thinks Wayland itself is great software. But the desktop projects and distros have a job to do too, and they didn't.)

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

#60

Somewhat related, does anyone know of a working screen recorder for wayland? The gnome builtin one is broken on 20.04 and 20.10. There’s a fix upstream, but it doesn’t look like it’s going to make it to the repos for a while yet

OBS should work. I believe depending on your setup, you may need to setup Pipewire.
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