Features:

  • Highly customizable
  • In-app screenshot editing
  • Upload to online platforms
  • Command-line interface (CLI)

Platforms:

  • Linux
  • Windows
  • MacOS

Link: flameshot.org.

  • kyub@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    34·
    3 months ago

    Flameshot is great, I use it every day at work and home. The integrated editing/annoation/drawing functions are superb.

  • blabboole@lemm.ee
    191·
    3 months ago

    It’s a shame this doesn’t work nicely with multiple displays, it always picks the monitor I don’t have the window on I want to capture.

  • 7EP6vuI@feddit.orgEnglish
    17·
    3 months ago

    i use this at work, and its great. Only downside is, that the buttons are hard to identify and move depending on the size of the screenshot, so you always have to search for the function you need.

    Does anyone have a workaround for this?

    • Azzk1kr@feddit.nlEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      No! This has been bugging me for quite some time as well. Other than that, it’s excellent software.

    • derpgon@programming.dev
      3·
      3 months ago

      For the longest time I used gnome-screenshot via shortcuts that execute terminal commands. Nowadays, I use my dedicated print screen button (that probably just executes similar commands and uses gnome-screenshot on the background).

    • Uninvited Guest@lemmy.ca
      1·
      3 months ago

      I’ve learned the keyboard shortcuts that matter to me, but I agree I wish it was a consistent horizontal bar.

  • ZarkleFarkle@sh.itjust.works
    9·
    3 months ago

    Doesn’t seem like people think this works consistently on wayland, which was what made the post sound a lot more interesting. Hopefully every desktop will soon get full wayland support and be able to take screenshots without it not working. It seems like getting screenshots in wayland is difficult because of the security stuff.

    • youmaynotknow@lemmy.ml
      42·
      3 months ago

      It works flawlessly. Yes, currently it takes a bit of tweaking to get it working on Wayland, but once you nail it, flawless and so freaking useful. Once I started using it I find every other screen shot app lacking.

      • PlexSheep@infosec.pub
        7·
        3 months ago

        So if you have to get it working on Wayland, I don’t think it works flawless. What exactly did you do?

        • youmaynotknow@lemmy.ml
          3·
          3 months ago

          I agree, but flawless does apply after the tweak/workaround is completed.

          • Anyway, if installed from flatpak:
          sudo tee /usr/local/bin/flameshot-workaround > /dev/null <<'EOF'

          #!/bin/bash

          flameshot

          EOF

          sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/flameshot-workaround

          After this, just make the call from:

          /usr/local/bin/flameshot-workaround

          instead of:

          flameshot gui
          • If installed RPM, then make the call from:
          script --command "flameshot gui" /dev/null

          instead of:

          flameshot gui
            • youmaynotknow@lemmy.ml
              2·
              3 months ago

              Apparently (from what I was able to gather, but I’m certainly no dev) that nullifies the part of Gnome in Wayland that makes it fail and not capture.

              Whatever the case, it’s been working flawlessly for me since Fedora 38 on Gnome 44.

              • ZarkleFarkle@sh.itjust.works
                2·
                3 months ago

                /dev/null is a special file in the Linux filesystem that contains only 0s which aren’t actually stored anywhere physically.

                People often redirect data there in shell scripts to get rid of it without sending it anywhere else.

                Usually data is either redirected with pipes to another command, or it’s saved to some file (or used to manipulate a file by typing the little arrows in Shell scripts, >, standard output). This one seems to just reference a file (at least for the last line).

                If you wanna get some dev skills, you can understand just one concept to do it and read basic code like this (especially Bash or Python, or a special coding language called Lisp). Be careful though, because this one concept is dangerous in that it can literally send you insane by altering your worldviews as what you can do with it grows. It’s not necessarily an accurate representation of physical reality; for that you need science.

                Are you ready? I hope you are lol

                A computer is like one big hollow orb full of other little hollow orbs. They each contain concepts, conceptual data (like in mathematical Lambda Calculus), along with possibly other hollow orbs (coding procedures) that reintegrate with this data. You can store basically any concept in them and have the computer act it out when you’re good at doing it. Lisp programming (where everything is in brackets) acts quite directly like this, and this is the main way I’ve thought about coding stuff.

                Terry Davis probably used this concept (but not Lisp) to make his own operating system from scratch, which drove him insane. He thought it was perfect and in a way holy, even though it wasn’t. Hope that helped lol.

                • youmaynotknow@lemmy.ml
                  2·
                  3 months ago

                  Thanks for taking the time to explain this in detail. I have been wanting to get into the actual understanding of Linux commands to a deeper level for years now, but with 2 jobs, 3 kids, 3 dogs and church, what little free time I’ve had I tend to spend either playing some video games or sleeping.

                  You are right, I should get up off my ass and continue learning, and I will start today, by not entering commands and scripts that I find in the internet blindly (which is what I’ve been doing) but actually finding out what each part does before doing so.

  • Railcar8095@lemm.ee
    8·
    3 months ago

    On Mac, with multiple displays, it seems to be broken. Sometimes it targets the wrong display, and mixes the resolutions. Have tried for a while because it seems perfect on Linux.

    Will try again in a while

        • B0rax@feddit.orgDeutsch
          2·
          3 months ago

          Settings -> keyboard -> keyboard shortcuts -> screenshots

          (Translated from a different language, so the wording might be a bit different)

    • Tick Dracy@lemm.ee
      1·
      3 months ago

      If you’re on Mac there is no reason to use this instead of the brilliant Shottr app.

      • Railcar8095@lemm.ee
        1·
        3 months ago

        I’m currently using shottr, but without those bugs I would still use flameshot. Might be due to familiarity, but I liked it more.

        Also, if I can I rather use FOSS.

    • tuhriel@infosec.pub
      1·
      3 months ago

      For me it gets a bit confused if I add or remove the external screens.

      Usually it is fixed if I quit and restart flameshot

  • takeheart@lemmy.world
    7·
    3 months ago

    I often use this over KDE’s inbuilt screenshot tool because this one has a quick way to crop a screenshot

  • perishthethought@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    3 months ago

    Use Flameshot every day. Love it.

    Two tips for users:

    • Check out this page for info on customizing the key bindings you use within the app to suit your needs: https://flameshot.org/docs/guide/key-bindings/

    • Same page has instructions for choosing which key-combo should bring up the GUI. I’m on Ubuntu and had to do special steps to make it work with the PrintScr key but it’s so easy to use now!

    • filcuk@lemmy.zip
      3·
      3 months ago

      Flameshot was great, but for me, no window select (on Win) and no plan to implement is a deal breaker, thoughi understandthe reasons.
      Also breaks when moving between docks - has to be restarted, and pinned images go under the screen, if pinned at the bottom (they always shift down).
      While I like the UI, it makes it awkward to quickly find the icon needed on small crops, since they keep shifting around.

  • land@lemmy.ml
    5·
    3 months ago

    A great tool, wish they had a feature that would allow you to add plugins/add-ons such as OCR, GIF Maker etc. Similar to what FlowLauncher offers plugins wise. (FlowLauncher is a FOSS system wide search engine for windows).

      • land@lemmy.ml
        1·
        3 months ago

        Flow Launcher is way more powerful, customisable and has plugins support. Power toys run is pretty limited. With flow launcher you can direct search internet queries with your favourite search engine.

  • sorter_plainview@lemmy.today
    4·
    3 months ago

    Anyone know a screenshot tool that can do this effect easily and directly? I tried out a lot of tools and I’m unable to find any. Currently I’m using either Inkscape or Illustrator to get this effect. This is really good effect to prepare documentations.

    Spotlight

      • refalo@programming.dev
        3·
        3 months ago

        .NET works on non-Windows OSes too, at least enough to have a GUI. Avalonia is cross-platform for example. Not only across desktop but also mobile and web.

    • filcuk@lemmy.zip
      1·
      3 months ago

      Not for me, went back to ShareX. I can’t find anything that does all the things and better.