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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 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 points 3 months ago

Hasn't been updated in over a year

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

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

[–] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

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

[–] moreeni@lemm.ee 16 points 3 months ago

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

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 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.)

[–] neosheo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What site is that tracker thing?

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[–] Renegade@infosec.pub 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How's it compare to greenshot?

[–] bier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Basically same feature set with better ui

[–] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 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 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[–] governorkeagan@lemdro.id 5 points 3 months ago

I just wish it had a window capture mode.

[–] 0x2d@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Bazz@feddit.de 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] exu@feditown.com 2 points 3 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 3 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 3 points 3 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 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

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).

[–] Hexarei@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

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