Flameshot(github.com)

115 pointsby OsrsNeedsf2P6 hours ago13 comments

socalgal24 hours ago
This has the same issue as most screenshot software, it's out of date relative to modern devices. Every Mac laptop for the last ~4 years has an HDR display. Many windows devices are also HDR. But this app doesn't capture HDR.
I tried putting up an HDR image and then capturing the screen. All HDR brightness was gone from the image.
I get it's not easy per-se. It wasn't until MacOS Tahoe that Apple's own screen capture on Mac started supporting HDR. Windows 10/11, AFAIK, only supports HDR through the XBox Game Bar's capture. Apps like ShareX still only capture SDR.
I mostly bring that up because I have apps the draw HDR and spent some time trying to find ways to add tests that we're actually getting HDR on the screen using screen captures. I hit a wall and gave up (2021).
- dan-robertson2 hours ago
  The readme suggests this is a Linux-first app and as HDR basically doesn’t work at all on Linux(?) I don’t think it’s very surprising that this app doesn’t handle it.
  It does a great job for my purposes – describing which buttons to click over email or im.
  - kmarc2 hours ago
    Haven't used this app for ages, but yesterday I fine-tuned the HDR settings for my newly bought laptop under KDE/plasma, definitely on Linux. That readme might be outdated (or the tool doesn't work on KDE at all)
    mostlysimilar2 hours ago
    My understanding of the landscape currently is that KDE Plasma is the only major DE that supports HDR. I use it for Steam for that reason.
    dan-robertson2 hours ago
    Yeah I think I’m a bit outdated here. But I do think Linux hdr support is weak enough that many Linux-oriented apps are unlikely to do it well
- landr0id3 hours ago
  >But this app doesn't capture HDR.
  When you say the Xbox game bar accounts for it, do you mean video or still images? I've had HDR disabled for some time but I remember win+shift+s on Windows 11 capturing over-exposed screenshots when playing videogames.
cullenking5 hours ago
Flameshot is the best! I've been using it for 10+ years. I have it wired up to some hot keys in my window manager, and have it dump to s3 so I can paste around links to screenshots everywhere for work.
https://github.com/kingcu/screendrop
- philsnow3 hours ago
  > dump to s3 so I can paste around links to screenshots everywhere for work
  This has got to be the "todo list app" for people who aren't app devs; mine [0] is for MacOS + launchd + hammerspoon and I use Shottr for annotation
  [0] https://github.com/philsnow/shots-filed
- cheschire2 hours ago
  yep, I bound it to win+shift+s like the screenshots in windows when I made the flip to full time linux a couple years ago.
  Fell in absolute love with the controls though. Way more powerful than windows screenshots.
vitaminCPP5 hours ago
Great software.
On a small note: This recent PR is both awesome and pretty funny to me.
https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/pull/4498#issue-3...
- aendruk5 hours ago
  Ambitious!
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- simtel203 hours ago
  Oh, thanks for the link. I've been using flameshot for most of the past decade, but haven't been able to use it with pop-os and my monitors recently because it was derotating my monitor.
b1temyan hour ago
I used to really like this software, and I still do. But there were a couple of dealbreakers for me.
1) As others mentioned, Wayland support. But it seems that it's gotten a lot better since I last used it. I resisted using Wayland for a long time because of several software breaking, but I've switched over now that most of the things I use now work (or because I've stopped using things that don't work).
2) it was broken for me with fractional scaling. This is the main reason why I switched, I started using fractional scaling on my second monitor and could not properly fix it for the life of me. I haven't tested it recently, but I just checked, and the github issue seems to still be open. https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/issues/564
julius-fx4 hours ago
Love flameshot. Did my due diligence for screenshot tools, found it, and never tried anything else again :)
- brightball3 hours ago
  Same. I tried probably 6-7 different tools on Ubuntu before I found Flameshot. It was everything I was looking for.
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- sngltoon4 hours ago
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  - saintfire3 hours ago
    This isn't some brand new vibe-coded software trying to propagate malware on HN.
    It is and has been a solid screenshot choice for a long time and has existed as OSS for a decade.
    jojomodding3 hours ago
    Indeed, I've been using for (2) years, ever since I switched to Wayland.
  - throwway1203852 hours ago
    I used Flameshot for half a decade until about 2 years ago when I switched to whatever comes with KDE because I switched to KDE from Gnome. So no, not malware. It's just existed for quite a while.
  - tomcam4 hours ago
    > You did exactly zero code audit.
    Couldn't see how you derived that from GP? You read their mind?
haunter3 hours ago
I wish ShareX was available on Linux https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX
- system23 hours ago
  I agree. ShareX for Windows is flawless in my opinion.
shane_kerns36 minutes ago
On my Mac all I see is a gray screen when I'm using the app. It used to work on my Mac until a year ago.
vzaliva5 hours ago
Flameshot is great! It was one of the reasons I have not switched to Wayland. Although it seems now they have wayland support in beta.
- nickjj4 hours ago
  The good news is a few lines of shell scripting, grim, slurp and satty can be combined to create a decent alternative.
  Hit a hotkey, capture a region, get presented with a way to annotate it and easily copy it to your clipboard or write it to disk. I use it on a multi-monitor system and it works no problem with Wayland.
  Here's an example from my dotfiles: https://github.com/nickjj/dotfiles/blob/master/.local/bin/do...
  It supports capturing a region, a specific window or the focused monitor.
  - dfc2 hours ago
    Flameshot with sway has been a nightmare for me. I have tried a couple of times but i have never gotten it to work. I have settled with grimshot. The biggest missed feature is the number annotator. It was so easy with flameshot to annotate a screenshot with 1-9 and then refer to each number in a document. I really miss flameshot:(
    nickjj2 hours ago
    The solution I posted includes an incrementing number annotator btw. Satty has a lot of great features. You can even capture the whole screen so that you can crop it after you've done your annotation which is similar to how Flameshot works.
- ktm5j4 hours ago
  I think it's beta for a reason. I just tried the appimage for their latest release and it's behaving in the same broken way that I remember.
  I have a multi-monitor setup with different size & resolution screens, so that may be a factor for the problems I'm having. Really hope it'll work someday.
mog_dev5 hours ago
Hopefully wayland support will improve
- WinstonSmith844 hours ago
  Maybe try Spectacle. I use the OOTB Spectacle app on Fedora KDE. It has the same features as Flameshot and is .. well, native.
  But on my Mac, I use indeed Flameshot, it's not ideal (the window is "shrinking" when a screenshot is captured), but it's better than any alternative I tried.
  - koiueo3 hours ago
    Why would you use anything but Shottr on macOS?
    I'm not affiliated, but the software is simply on a whole different level. They deserve all the fame.
- shoobiedoo3 hours ago
  Huh? I'm running kde plasma on wayland and flameshot runs like a dream come true. I hit the flameshot icon in the tray, it automatically selects the whole screen to save, or if I click it starts cropping wherever I move the mouse. It's like the devs read my mind for exactly what I wanted
  - direwolf20an hour ago
    Every Wayland compositor has a different feature set, and KDE is one of the more open to implementing features. It's likely that other people have compositors that stubbornly refuse to implement screenshots for security reasons.
garymoon5 hours ago
I love flameshot, before it I used Shutter and I don't regret switching to Flameshot whatsoever. I use it on my work and personal laptops (Debian+xfce4)
- koiueo3 hours ago
  Shutter is great in terms of features. I just recently discovered it.
  But its code... Thousands (like definitely over 10k) of lines of procedural perl. I had a feature in mind I wanted to contribute and I couldn't even scratch the surface. I doubt this software can evolve any further.
  - jszymborski2 hours ago
    woah, had no idea Shutter was written in Perl
onesandofgrain2 hours ago
Flameshot like Lightshot the one on chrome?
- reboot81an hour ago
  Lightshot, if youre using it you should remove it and then google why.
morkalork3 hours ago
I love flameshot and use it at work all the time for ridiculously marked-up and snarky screenshots to send co-workers or attach to JIRAs. Part of me wants to believe the "flame" in flameshot is for flaming people, like yes, you see this shit here? How about a nice big arrow so you don't fucking miss it
- gegtik3 hours ago
  increase the border size. more. yes. in the bloodiest red. yes. its rectangle time
IshKebab3 hours ago
Honestly the best screenshot software I've used so far is KDE's built-in printscreen thingy. I think it's called Spectacle. Does exactly all of the things you want - easy copying of regions, recording videos of regions (Wayland only unfortunately), annotation, etc.
One of the few times in Linux land where the UX is actually significantly better than Windows or Linux, and there's basically no jank at all.
(The only slight jank I noticed is that on X11 the "Screen recording" button just ... doesn't do anything. No "you need Wayland" message. Just nothing. I'll give it a pass though because the rest is so surprisingly great. Good job Spectacle authors!)
I do use ShareX on Windows for video recordings but Spectacle is better.
- KetoManx642 hours ago
  Spectacle is great. I tried to switch to it from Flameshot a few months back since it has all the features that I use regularly in Flameshot but ran into an issue where it would 2-3 times longer than Flameshot to start up when starting it up through the CLI. I use keymapper to map all my keyboard shortcuts and starting Spectacle using Qdbus is very slow compares to flameshot, like 1-2 seconds of waiting after pressing the hotkey compared to Flameshot being instant.
  Looks like someone found a workaround by having spectacle run as a systemd process and restart after closing though, I'll have to give it a try: https://discuss.kde.org/t/make-spectacle-launch-faster/38030...