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

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post #32

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.

Indeed. It’s indispensable really. Annotations are perfect too!

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

#62

This is AWESOME news! I really love to see how well supported Wayland nowadays is. We're probably still missing a couple of things, but so far my experience has been fantastic.

The year was 2021: Windows was starting again to support non-x86 hardware architectures, and Microsoft was shipping the best to Linux desktop experience. Mac OS shipped with the the fastest mobile processor in the world. Android basically owned the phone market.... Linux desktop was just getting somewhat working basic screenshot support.

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

#63

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

I also like peek.

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

#64

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

it doesn't appear to support wayland

https://github.com/phw/peek#why-no-native-wayland-support

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

#65

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

Doesn't work.

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

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post #59
post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ge…

Really only Fedora has shipped Wayland by default for five years, and they do this with a lot of other tech as well (GNOME 3 and Cgroups v2 to name some more). If there is no user demand, nobody wants to do the work of supporting new technology, which is why Fedora releases things before they are ready. Anyone using Fedora should know this.

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

#67
post #22

I've used Flameshot for a while and can say it is definitely the best of many tools I've tried. The direct upload to imgur is particularly nice.

I'm so glad. I've been looking for a decent screenshot tool on linux for ... basically forever. This is so amazing.

Thank you!

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

#68
post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's no real standard, but something that may develop into a de-facto standard. The 3 possible ways I am aware of are: - org.gnome.Shell.Screenshot, a dbus API primarily/only used by GNOME - wlr-screencopy, a Wayland protocol extension primarily implemented by wlroots, which Sway, Wayfire and many other compositors use - xdg-desktop-portal, which is promoted by the freedesktop group and an abstraction of both APIs…

I was researching the issue and noticed wlr-screencapture. I was hoping to see it at https://github.com/wayland-project/wayland-protocols too, but no luck. Thanks for the lead on xfg-desktop-portal. It is fascinating watching the near decade-long journey as Wayland tackles screenshots.

By fascinating you mean depressing, right? If Wayland has taken this long to get a basic feature like screenshots what other features does it not support?
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