Linux @lemmy.ml brownmustardminion @lemmy.ml 1w ago

Print-screen App

Anybody got any suggestions for a good print-screen / screenshot app?

I'm using the default of Swappy right now and it doesn't really suit my needs.

The MacOS screenshot app is my ideal.

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flameshot
Flameshot, I use it everywhere and it works everywhere
- I use flameshot both on Linux and my Windows work laptop. I definitely recommend it
- I like flameshot but it needs a bunch of window rule to work properly on kde Wayland apparently it uses some wayland wlroots-isms that plasma doesn't implement
  
  First I heard of this (but then, I'm stuck on outdated GPU so no Wayland for me T~T)
- Flameshot is even king on windows
- Second this. Think I heard about it on lemmy, been using it ever since. Built in editing, copy to clipboard, save to file, all the stuff I need.
I like the default one in KDE (Spectacle). It does everything I need, and can take both screenshots and recordings. I don't think it works with other DEs though.
- +1. Works great.
Flameshot I use it with cinnamon.
scrot if you want to use the CLI, (KDE) Spectacle if you need a UI.
magick import of imagemagick has a crosshair. Here's my function:

screnshot() { ## script to make screenshots with imagemagick's import command and display them ## usage: screenshot <path> <name> _id="$(date "+%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S")" _dir="${1:-$XDG_CACHE_HOME}" _shot="$_dir"/"${2:-shot_$_id}.png" mkdir -p "$_dir" printf '%s\n' "$_shot" magick import "$_shot" && \ magick display "$_shot" }

And good old xfce4-screenshooter, xfce4-screenshooter -r and xfce4-screenshooter -w.
Flameshot
- I love flameshot, but unfortunately it's support for more than one monitor on wayland has me looking for an alternative :(
  
  Alternative found: Spectacle in rectangular capture mode is the best
I don't know about Swappy but I use Grim + Slurp.
@brownmustardminion I use KDE's Spectacle, and I like it a lot!
What's your DE?
- Hyprland
  
  I'd go with grimshot then, which I think works for hyprland as well (it's made for sway). It provides an interface over Grim, slurp, and jq, and makes life easy. Combine it with a image viewer like imv, and your set!
  
  grim + slurp ftw. On my system mod+ctrl+s -> select area by drawing a box -> screenshot saved as shot.png in the Downloads directory where even sandboxed apps can read it. Next shot just overwrites the previous one.
Kde's Spectacle is awesome
- it's the most mac-like (and Windows, it pulls a good medium)
it doesn’t really suit my needs.

What are your needs?
Not sure what the MacOS one is, but i use flameshot and im happy with it
I honestly just use a shellscript bound to a key because I think all of the screenshot software on Linux is garbage.

https://drkt.eu/files/scripts/ss.sh

@brownmustardminion I think you'd be fine still usin swappy, just use it in a way that does what you need. I use maim piped to xclip as below, then I tie each of those cases to [PrScr] with different modkeys.

case "${1}" in
    area)     maim --hidecursor -s |tee $HOME/Pictures/Screenshots/$(date +%y%m%d-%H%M%S).png |xclip -selection clipboard -t image/png
    ;;
    savew)    maim --hidecursor -i $(xdotool getactivewindow) |tee $HOME/Pictures/Screenshots/$(date +%y%m%d-%H%M%S).png |xclip -selection clipboard -t image/png
    ;;
    savef)    maim --hidecursor |tee $HOME/Pictures/Screenshots/$(date +%y%m%d-%H%M%S).png |xclip -selection clipboard -t image/png
    ;;
esac

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