Flameshot – Open-source screenshot software

Same! I haven’t come across anything like it yet.

My 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.

This 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!

The 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.

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