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

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.

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.

This is AWESOME news!<p>I really love to see how well supported Wayland nowadays is. We&#x27;re probably still missing a couple of things, but so far my experience has been fantastic.

When it says &quot;supports Wayland&quot; does it actually mean that Wayland upped the game to support screenshots at the protocol level, or is this all the major compositors have settled on a de-facto screenshot standard to implement in parallel to Wayland?<p>Because I don&#x27;t think, technically, it is possible for a screenshot tool to &quot;support Wayland&quot;.

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.

If you&#x27;re looking for a screenshot tool for macOS, I cannot recommend CleanShot X highly enough. It in the league of its own, with scroll capture, gifs, even changing your desktop in the screenshot, but not &quot;in reality&quot;. I&#x27;m really impressed.

I just tried it, I love it! Thanks! I work in software testing: this is my new capture tool because it will save me a lot of time.

Somewhat related, does anyone know of a working screen recorder for wayland? The gnome builtin one is broken on 20.04 and 20.10. There’s a fix upstream, but it doesn’t look like it’s going to make it to the repos for a while yet

Flameshot is really great, man. One of my desert island tools definitely.

I don&#x27;t wanna poop on their parade, but haven&#x27;t Wayland screenshotters been around for a while? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;emersion&#x2F;grim" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;emersion&#x2F;grim</a><p>That one has at least been around for long enough, and has worked perfectly under Sway for long enough, that I had to look up its name because I had it bound to a hotkey and had forgotten what it was called.

Don&#x27;t get me wrong, Flameshot is a great tool, but this feels a bit like celebrating every turn after reinventing the wheel.

Cool tool but redundant on macOS. Do screenshot using Shift-CMD-4 or 5 and edit using Preview to add arrows, text etc. I usually screenshot a part of the screen directly to the clipboard, then paste it into Mail.app where I can quickly edit it and add some text, errors, drawings etc.

Hmm, funny I should see this here after TeMPOraL mentioned it to me a few days ago. It looks much better than Shutter, which I use now. I&#x27;ll try to write an IMGZ plugin for it, one-shot image upload and copying the URL to the clipboard would be fantastic.

I am not able to use it on sway with default swaybar. The notification simply says &quot;Unable to capture screen&quot; when I click on the tray icon. From CLI also I tried a few commands but nothing happens. No errors as well. Can you please help me?

&gt; Ability to run flameshot on Sway<p>I assume that this full wlroots-based compositor support (so Wayfire as well), which is great!

Not working completely as intended here (sway, nixos): it can take a single screenshot, and then later executions fail with those messages: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;0x0.st&#x2F;-Z6n.txt" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;0x0.st&#x2F;-Z6n.txt</a><p>I like the direct upload to imgur though.

Anyone knows how to bind the printscreen key to automated flameshot screenshoting ? (using awesome&#x2F;sway&#x2F;thingslikethat).<p>I&#x27;d like to emulate spectacle (kde screenshot tool) that allows a 2 seconds delay between rectangular area or application to be screenshoted.

I prefer such utilities to be native to the environment (typically OS) and tightly integrated.

Just to be clear: there exist lots of other screenshot tools which has supports Wayland, so this isn’t the <i>first</i> or only tool which does so.<p>Always nice to see more tools support Wayland though.<p>For now I’m still happy with grim and how it integrates into my swaywm setup.

Recently gave up on Wayland (for the moment) due to the inability to screen share most applications on Google Meet. I realise this isn&#x27;t really Wayland&#x27;s fault, but that doesn&#x27;t really solve my problem.

I like the innovation of having annotations available within the tool; but I make games, a video alternative with a timeline of annotations would be killer.

this was submitted a month ago - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26113753" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26113753</a> i managed to build it for mac, but the dealbreaker was that text couldn&#x27;t be moved. i&#x27;m sticking to Zapier&#x27;s Zappy for now but even it has lacking features :( very close to writing my own...

Great to have discovered this nice tool! After fiddle it for a while, it doesn&#x27;t seem to be able to select specific window and capture?

Does it capture a screenshot and then you edit the still frame? Or are you drawing onto a potentially changing background?

Glad this tool exists I have just moved to it. The main thing missing in my opinion to record a video as a gif.

For users who like flameshot: I found ksnip even more compelling as it has more annotation features and tabs.

nice to have some alternatives to <i>grim</i>[1] on Sway. Guess most people won&#x27;t care, however I would not want my screenshot tool to be able to access the network.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;emersion&#x2F;grim" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;emersion&#x2F;grim</a>

Will video be supported at some point?

Kinda wish this and snag it would load to s3 and put the public url in my clipboard.

Is this Wayland-only or does it also work with X and a window manager like i3?

The auto incrementing label is very cool, im glad your enjoying yourself.

This was the last essential tool needed to fully switch to Wayland.

Would love to see a screenshot of that screenshot tool.

I wish this tool existed on MacOS, being able to annotate screenshots in such a fluid manner was a great feature on Linux.

What is the best screen recorder?

How does this compare to ShareX

Am I missing the hype?

Shutter is the only screenshot tool for Linux that meets my needs.<p>But no Wayland support.

Windows is not a major OS anymore apparently

The website doesn&#x27;t really make it clear, but it supports Windows, MacOS and Linux (in all flavors).<p>Even though Windows now has a quite good screenshot story out-of-the-box with the Win+Shift+S shortcut, Flameshot seems to have some very nice annotation options that I haven&#x27;t seen anywhere else.