Print-screen App

[brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml]

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.

[huskypenguin@sh.itjust.works]

What's your DE?

[promitheas@programming.dev]

Not sure what the MacOS one is, but i use flameshot and im happy with it

[akatsukilevi@lemmy.world]

Flameshot, I use it everywhere and it works everywhere

[brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml]

Hyprland

[dan@upvote.au]

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.

[porcupineslippers@lemmy.ml]

I use flameshot both on Linux and my Windows work laptop. I definitely recommend it

[muhyb@programming.dev]

I don't know about Swappy but I use Grim + Slurp.

[mactan@lemmy.ml]

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

[mwa@lemm.ee]

Flameshot I use it with cinnamon.

[drkt@scribe.disroot.org]

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

[Guest]

@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

[lemmebe@sh.itjust.works]

+1. Works great.

[monkdervierte@lemmy.ml]

magick import of imagemagick. 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:-$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}"
    _shot="$_dir"/"${2:-shot_$_id}.png"

    mkdir -p "$_dir"
    magick import "$_shot"
    viewnior "$_shot"
}

And good old xfce4-screenshooter, xfce4-screenshooter -r and xfce4-screenshooter -w.

[akalanka@masto.es]

@brownmustardminion I use KDE's Spectacle, and I like it a lot!

[uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml]

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!

[utopiah@lemmy.ml]

scrot if you want to use the CLI, (KDE) Spectacle if you need a UI.

[dirk@lemmy.ml]

it doesn’t really suit my needs.

What are your needs?

[warmaster@lemmy.world]

Kde's Spectacle is awesome

[pewpew@feddit.it]

Flameshot