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Flameshot – Open-source screenshot software

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Re: Flameshot – Open-source screenshot software

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Post by brightball »

pixelmonkey wrote: post #55

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, navi…

I just store screenshots to a Dropbox folder. It’s worked great for me for years with Flameshot.

Re: Flameshot – Open-source screenshot software

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Post by askvictor »

This is my screencap tool - the 'pin' feature is particularly useful when debugging things. One minor annoyance is it struggles with DPI scaling across screens (i.e. multi-screen with different scaling factors on different screens). There's a long thread on github with workarounds.

Re: Flameshot – Open-source screenshot software

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Post by __fst__ »

zie wrote: post #62

I don't understand the fascination with blur. It's terrible from a security/privacy perspective. The data is still in the image. Sure you can add randomization to the blur to make it less easy to undo(I haven't looked if Flameshot does or not, most don't). If you crop the stuff you want out of the image, there is no data there to do anything with. Every screenshot tool I've ever come across has a blur tool but no cut…

I sometimes (but rarely) use blur to shift the attention focus on certain screen regions by blurring out other parts. Like an inverted highlighter. But mostly I actually use the highlighter function :-)

Re: Flameshot – Open-source screenshot software

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Post by endgame »

geoka9 wrote: post #30

I use the following script (activated by a system-level shortcut key) to take a screenshot, upload to S3 bucket (using the minio client[0]) and place the URL in the X selection buffer, ready to be pasted: #!/bin/bash set -e dbus-update-activation-environment DISPLAY XAUTHORITY FNAME=`cat /dev/urandom | tr -cd 'a-f0-9' | head -c 32`.png flameshot gui --raw > /tmp/$FNAME ~/go/bin/mc -q cp --attr x-amz-acl=public-read /…

You may want to modernise your script because Bucket ACLs are disabled by default these days: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/about-...

Re: Flameshot – Open-source screenshot software

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Post by just-tom »

pentagrama wrote: post #57

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.

I use ShareX for mp4 and gif using CTRL+PrtSc / SHIFT+PrtSc and for image screenshot only PrtSc (currently lightshot, will aoon move to flameshot)
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