by socalgal2
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- This has the same issue as most screenshot software, it's out of date relative to modern devices.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).
by cullenking
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- 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
by vitaminCPP
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- 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...
- 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
- I wish ShareX was available on Linux https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX
by julius-fx
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- Love flameshot. Did my due diligence for screenshot tools, found it, and never tried anything else again :)
- 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.
by self_awareness
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- Spectacle for KDE is also a good choice.
https://apps.kde.org/spectacle/
I found Flameshot to work flawlessly only on Linux X11 and Windows. Other platforms (Wayland, macOS) have problems.
- Hopefully wayland support will improve
- 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.
by greuceanu42069
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- This is my go-to screenshot tool for Ubuntu. I've even gone as far as replacing the default printscreen with this using Custom Shortcuts.
Word of warning, however: it is somehwat buggy when trying to add more than 1 text boxes on the screenshot.
by morkalork
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- 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
by SubiculumCode
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- Flameshot is the best. I don't know about HD, and maybe if I get a HD screen I'll find out, but right now it's the slickest
- 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)
- Popular in:
2022 (114 points, 30 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30071766
2021 (335 points, 84 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26113753
by throwaway2037
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- As a long time (accidental) Flameshot user on Debian Linux, I was surprised to just now learn that Flameshot is written using the cross-platform C++ GUI library Qt. I guess that explains how it works on Microsoft Windows, Linux (X11/Wayland), and MacOS!
- This has been a savor for me! I'm tired of screenshot tools that don't let you precisely crop the shot and require you to use editing software. Flameshot with its magnifier is next level.
- I use it daily. Great little app for taking screenshots on mac, since the macapp is terrible, and the keyboard binding is even worse.
by akimbostrawman
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- Flameshot is great! I also use it to capture different language text in images that gets piped into tesseract for offline OCR.
by SV_BubbleTime
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- It’s VERY GOOD…
But why the hell can’t we get pen smoothing? What if I want to use the pen tool but not make it look like I’m a child on several mediations?
- This is one of the must have apps on my mac.
Combined with hammerspoon or even Raycast, you can do quite a bit of things.
- Flameshot isn't great on macOS, does anyone know of a good open source alternative they would recommend?
- Love Flameshot! Been using it for years since its cross platform so it works on macOS at home and Windows at work.
- Use Flameshot with powertoys on windows 11, powertoys can remap shortcut: win+shift+f23 to PrintScreen.
by shane_kerns
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- 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.
- Flameshot is fantastic software. Works great on Linux and gets the job done.
- I forget why but I ended up going back to Lightshot after trying this
- Localising this in KDE + HDR in terms of clang improvements.
- ksnip is pretty damn good too.
by treovchinn
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- anything would be better than win11 snipping tool, it is crazy that after win10 it stopped working across 2 monitors, you can only snip in one of the two monitors
by roggenbuck
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- Flameshot is excellent! I’ve been happily using it for years.
by _philipalan
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- How do you resize a rectangle made with the rectangle tool?
- Flameshot is my go to on macOS.
by onesandofgrain
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- Flameshot like Lightshot the one on chrome?
by richardanaya
0 subcomment
- I love this app, use it all the time.
by marcusrm12
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- Looks great!
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