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Flameshot is a free and open-source, cross-platform tool to take screenshots with many built-in features to save you time.

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[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 36 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Love it on X, needs some work on wayland yet.

[–] furzegulo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

yup, i use kde's screenshot tool on plasma but still miss flameshot

[–] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

I have mine almost mirroring windows snipping tool. So I’m pretty content. What makes flame shot better?

[–] moreeni@lemm.ee 17 points 11 months ago

Spectacle has more features and comes pre-installed on KDE Plasma. Better alternative, imho

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Flameshot is a really nice screenshot tool, but the big drawback is, that it only upload to Imgur, one of the worst Data hogs. The best and most complete is ShareX, there you can set the destinations to your like, but it has also a big drawback, it's Windows only (depends on NETframework, same as Greenshot)

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You can use Flameshot, but recomment to store the screenshots only locally and upload to share/host later to, eg vgy.me, or some self hosted one, like FileCoffee (valid for all type of files, image, video, multimedia, documents, presentations, etc.)

[–] Zeoic@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Flameshot can run a script once it saves a screenshot, so it can effectively be uploaded anywhere. Like zipline for example.

I still prefer ksnip over flameshot though.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but anyway, everybody wish ShareX in Linux, but nobody dares to fork ShareX for Linux. Until now there sadly isn't any equivalent tool for Linux

[–] Zeoic@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Indeed. I went on a many hour hunt for alternatives, even trying some wine methods of getting sharex itself working. Ksnip was the next best option, and gifine for gifs/mp4

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Yes, in Linux you need 3-4 different apps to do the same as you can do with ShareX

[–] IzyaKatzmann@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

wish it was on linux :(

[–] neosheo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What site is that tracker thing?

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[–] Renegade@infosec.pub 11 points 11 months ago (3 children)

How's it compare to greenshot?

[–] bier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Basically same feature set with better ui

[–] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

I found that Flameshot does not automatically select an annotation tool after snipping - which turned me off it.

Unless there is a setting I missed that enabled that. I went with Ksnip as a result.

ShareX is my favourite, but that UI doesn't scale.

[–] InstallGentoo@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Ksnip is basically a drop-in replacement for greenshot for Linux.

[–] Svengarlic@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

It'd say just as good. I prefer the text based menu of greenshot. The options in this are all icons, so I end up hovering over them all the time to confirm what they are. Works just as well, otherwise.

[–] governorkeagan@lemdro.id 6 points 11 months ago

I just wish it had a window capture mode.

[–] 0x2d@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

doesn't it require xorg? or can i use it on wayland now?

[–] Bazz@feddit.de 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Works with Wayland but bugs if you have scaling on something different than 100%

[–] exu@feditown.com 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It also breaks with more than one monitor on Wayland, might also be related to the scaling thing though.

[–] Bazz@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

Hmm it works here with different multi monitor setups. But scaling breaks it by changing the scaling for the screenshot so that you don't see the whole screen anymore.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 4 points 11 months ago

Got this installed on all my work machines - if you're wanting to stick a screenshot on Jira or Slack with a couple of arrows, wavy lines, or a bit blurred out then it's dead quick and has just the functionality that you need. Yes, it's simple and lacks a lot of 'power tools'. Sometimes that's just what you need, tho.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hands down the best screen shot app in Linux, in my opinion.

[–] clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And Windows! It's been added to my company on all machines out of the blue and set as default for taking screenshots (win10/11).

[–] Technoguyfication@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If you’re running Windows I would suggest looking into ShareX. It’s a million times better imo. Support for custom uploaders, video and gif recording, etc. It’s also free and open source.

[–] clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

I don't need video and gif recording. And most definitely not uploading. Thanks for the suggestion, though. I'll have a look at it.

[–] Hexarei@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

I switch between this and Shutter on a regular basis depending on what I feel like using that day.