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

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Post by josteink »

Just to be clear: there exist lots of other screenshot tools which has supports Wayland, so this isn’t the first or only tool which does so.

Always nice to see more tools support Wayland though.

For now I’m still happy with grim and how it integrates into my swaywm setup.

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

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Post by denysvitali »

dmitrygr wrote: post #62
denysvitali wrote: post #4

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.

To be fair it was only Flameshot that was kind of missing Wayland support. There were / are other alternatives specifically made for Wayland: saying that the whole ecosystem was lagging behind becaude of this specific app is a bit of a stretch.

But the meme is good, I'll give you that

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

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Post by ewokone »

vanous wrote: post #36

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.

Same here. Exactly my points on this great tool. Keep it up!

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

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Post by hojjat12000 »

I started using Wayland about a month ago on both my work computer and my laptop (On Pop_OS! 20.10). After seeing too much graphical glitches and weird behavior, specially because Alacritty (my favorite terminal) did not have any window decoration (I read through the whole issue on Gnome's issue tracker for server side decoration and got a little disappointed), I stopped using it on my work PC. But still I'm using it on my laptop. I haven't had any issues there, but I just use my laptop for some web surfing and zoom. Screen capture is a hassle too. I was trying to capture only a part of my screen and had to do an hour worth of research to finally decide to just switch to X.org and get the job done. It's great that Flameshot is now supporting Wayland, and it's great that it is trying to support all the common protocols.

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

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Post by dheera »

bhay wrote: 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.

Yes, and the ability to annotate and block out parts of the image before saving. Simple tools that for some reason other screenshot tools have been mind-bogglingly oblivious to provide.

(It has a blur tool too, but I don't recommend blurring sensitive data as if the area under the blur kernel is 1, the sum of the pixel values will be the same before and after the blur, and if an attacker recognizes which font and size it is from other parts of the screen, they use could dictionary attack for the text with the sum of the pixels as the hash to be cracked.)

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

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Post by samstave »

roenxi wrote: post #44
solarkraft wrote: post #41

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.

Whats fascinating to me is that I had NO idea there was some battle of some sorts in the "screenshot biosphere"

TBH I use GreenShot exclusively as it is seamless and does every thing I Need [0]

[0] https://i.imgur.com/x0oMzb6.png

And I can do things like this

[1] https://i.imgur.com/ZtR60qw.png

Nested fucking screenshots.

All I have to do is hit prtscrn each iteration I want to capture

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

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Post by samstave »

bhay wrote: 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.

Is it better than Greenshot?

https://i.imgur.com/ZtR60qw.png

I love nesting screenshots into screenshots by simply hitting the PRTSC button muliple times

https://i.imgur.com/9NKvWko.png

https://i.imgur.com/n8Mwh1Z.png

EDIT:

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And you should also install "hoverzoom" under brave broser with multiple blockers:

https://i.imgur.com/OcOJhyE.jpg

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