Can you recommend me a tool compatible with GNOME and Wayland, that allows taking screenshots with on-the-fly editing features like drawing or blurring?
Flameshot worked well on X11, but unfortunately, it lacks Wayland support. ShareX was a great tool on Windows; now I’m looking for something similar for Wayland.
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GNOME has one built in. Just hit the “print screen” button and it should appear.
with on-the-fly editing features like drawing or blurring
Oops, sorry I didn’t notice that part. I’ve never seen anything like that to be honest. It kinda violates the whole “do only one thing and do it well” UNIX ethos. As a decent work-around, you can just open the resulting images in Gimp?
That’s what I’ve been doing since flameshot stopped working for me. I ask about the built-in solution, because pasting the image into GIMP and blurring specific parts drastically increases the time to prepare such a screenshot
Couldnt you just put a custom script onto the print button to take the screenshot and send it to a light editing program?
I have my normal screenshot button and another one which afterwards send the selected region to img2txt and puts the detected text into the clipboard.
with on-the-fly editing features like drawing or blurring?
Unfortunately the built-in screenshot tool doesn’t have any editing capabilities.
Flameshot has wayland support, however there seems to be some issues that might need to be worked around. Like https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/issues/3326#issuecomment-1854902229
I noticed that the Flatpak didn’t work on Fedora 39, probably due to how they build the flatpak or something. I had no problem taking screenshots under Fedora 39 Wayland session using the Appimage.
Same. I want to use flatpak instead of the “raw” binary
As flameshot is qt based, did you have the xdg QT portal installed when trying? I think that’s what makes the qt stuff talk to other things in a wayland environment.
Did a quick search and ksnip seems to be the only fully featured option. Watershot seems nice.
But also looking into it, Flameshot seems to have full support for Wayland so I’m not sure why you’re saying it doesn’t?
Unfortunately, neither Grim nor slurp support GNOME
Try Satty? It’s inspired by flameshot, Wayland native, and written in Rust.
it lacks Wayland support.
It lacks wayland support in the sense that the UI won’t run on Wayland. It can take screenshots on Wayland.
Okay, so the vending machine works, but the buttons do nothing. Brilliant!
Taking screenshots? What’s the use case for that? That’s an invalid use case. Didn’t you know wayland is only a protocol?
genuinely just a horrible take
I’m amazed people don’t get the reference to Gnome devs here. I’m not even a Gnome user and I got the joke right away.
also, linux is only a kernel
