alt.hn

1/29/2026 at 7:30:35 PM

Flameshot

 https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot

by OsrsNeedsf2P

1/29/2026 at 10:03:14 PM

This has the same issue as most screenshot software, it's out of date relative to modern devices.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 socalgal2

1/29/2026 at 11:21:43 PM

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.

by dan-robertson

1/29/2026 at 11:36:21 PM

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 That readme might be outdated (or the tool doesn't work on KDE at all)

by kmarc

1/29/2026 at 11:49:13 PM

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.

by mostlysimilar

1/29/2026 at 11:41:40 PM

Yeah I think I’m a bit outdated here.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

by dan-robertson

1/30/2026 at 3:23:55 AM

HDR videos and games (both native and proton) work in both KDE and Gnome (and supposedly Sway and Hyprland, but I haven't tried either). I think support in KDE/Gnome landed in a stable release ~6 months ago.

The HDR experience on KDE is about as good as the Windows one. Last time I tried Gnome, there was no way to configure SDR and HDR brightness separately, but it was definitely still usable.

by jakkos

1/30/2026 at 1:40:58 PM

The problem was not only in KDE but also in NVIDIA drivers iiuc. For my setting HDR has been stably working on KDE since early 2025.

by pm3003

1/30/2026 at 1:37:21 PM

KDE has its own native screenshot tool called spectacle that I find works as least a well, if not better, than flameshot. (No idea about HDR, though.)

by bityard

1/30/2026 at 3:23:36 PM

Yeah, it doesn't seem to be the thing for Windows. For example its capture hotkey is PrtScrn which has been the Windows built-in capture key since approximately the Bronze Age, and then there's modifiers for whether you want to capture one window or everything, and if you really want to get fancy the Snipping Tool, all of them already built into the OS.

by pseudohadamard

1/30/2026 at 7:03:42 PM

Honest and maybe stupid question. What does enabling HDR on Mac actually does? I have Samsung Odyssey, and turning it on for me only slightly dims the brightness of the display and rather feels uncomfortable to me personally, so I keep it off. What benefits (or drawbacks) should I expect when having it on? I spend most of my time in my terminal, my editor (GUI Emacs) and browser. I rarely have to edit photos or videos, do I still need it, I wonder.

update: turns out, for my specific case of the display model, it seems it's better to keep it off, otherwise the colors are not as vibrant.

by iLemming

1/31/2026 at 5:30:33 AM

I don't know if these are compelling. On a Mac I think they are somewhat

https://gregbenzphotography.com/hdr-gain-map-gallery/

Note: Pretty much all phones for the last 4-5 years take HDR images. Take a high contrast phone (sun in the background, something dark covering half the image). Then later, view in in your phone. At least on iPhone they have some "fade to bright" thing where they don't show the HDR instantly but they instead fade to HDR over 1 second or so. Once they the brightness up it will still be up for the next photo. If you get out of the photo app at some point it will reset and then the next time you look at a photos it will do the "fade to HDR" thing.

Note: that site seems to only work correctly in Chrome. In Safari, the images flicker between SDR and HDR in some semi-random way. Firefox, AFAIK, has not added any HDR support yet.

There's also this: https://threejs.org/examples/?q=hdr#webgpu_hdr

Should work on Chrome Mac/iOS, and Safari iOS. Broken on Safari MacOS.

by socalgal2

1/30/2026 at 1:57:12 AM

This has been my experience as well, I've searched high and low for a screenshot software that supports HDR and found none. It's the sole reason I have HDR disabled. At least microsoft updated snipping tool now, but the usability is nothing close compared to Flameshot or Lightshot.

by Fabricio20

1/30/2026 at 8:02:07 AM

For what it's worth, I notice this week that the built in macOs screenshot tool will capture in HDR.

by cipehr

1/29/2026 at 11:01:40 PM

>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.

by landr0id

1/30/2026 at 1:53:45 AM

The Xbox Game Bar video and still images do support HDR. They were the first feature to support HDR on windows. More recently the Snipping Tool on 11 also supports HDR, but only the newer one, not the older snipping tool. If you get images in JXR (jpeg-xr) files then you have HDR, if you get over-exposed pngs/jpgs then it doesnt do HDR.

by Fabricio20

1/30/2026 at 8:51:07 AM

I did some Googling to discover if Qt supports HDR on MacOS. It looks like support is currently limited, but it is an area of active development.

Jan 2024: https://www.qt.io/blog/window-embedding-in-qt-quick

Sep 2025: https://forum.qt.io/topic/163224/hdr-example-code

Latest docs (search for "HDR"): https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qvideoframeformat.html

This Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1ibala5/ive_discov...

... shares info about a Swift-based screen recorder that claims to support HDR. (I have no ability to verify that.) That might work for you.

by throwaway2037

1/30/2026 at 2:17:49 PM

What does "HDR" do in a computer screen? We're talking about high dynamic range, right?

by AlienRobot

1/29/2026 at 8:22:16 PM

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 cullenking

1/30/2026 at 3:27:26 AM

> and have it dump to s3 so I can paste around links to screenshots everywhere for work.

I wanted something like this too but I modified Flameshot so I don't need a bash script in-between.

Flameshot already has a feature to upload to Imgur so I modified that and also added some small things (like randomized file names, some new config options).

by KomoD

1/30/2026 at 6:44:35 PM

> Flameshot already has a feature to upload to Imgur

Didn't they remove it though? Because someone complained about "privacy" or something? Devs promised to bring it back as the plugin, but I wasn't following progress on it, I don't know if that happened yet.

by iLemming

1/29/2026 at 10:23:53 PM

> 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

by philsnow

1/30/2026 at 4:57:42 AM

It stopped working for me after I switched to Wayland

by dheera

2/2/2026 at 8:23:06 PM

The above works on wayland, had to make the changes specifically when I moved over to wayland and hyprland

by cullenking

1/30/2026 at 9:11:27 AM

Same for me. I would love to use it on my Sway desktop, but never managed to make it run there.

by smartmic

1/31/2026 at 4:30:28 AM

This works for me on PopOS Cosmic (Wayland). Please lmk if my flags are incorrect.

XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=sway QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb flameshot

by vlod

1/29/2026 at 11:18:21 PM

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.

by cheschire

1/29/2026 at 8:45:03 PM

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...

by vitaminCPP

1/29/2026 at 8:58:40 PM

Ambitious!

> closes #4494 #4493 #4478 #4475 #4465 #4462 #4457 #4449 #4441 #4437 #4435 #4433 #4432 #4430 #4402 #4401 #4260 #4205 #4172 #4171 #4073 #4042 #4035 #3874 #3854 #3847 #3844 #3814 #3811 #3779 #3761 #3689 #3698 #3649 #3616 #3614 #3566 #3528 #3517 #3468 #3461 #3422 #3393 #3392 #3378 #3349 #3345 #3339 #3243 #3164 #3146 #3126 #3096 #3047 #3068 #3056 #3037 #3027 #3020 #2970 #2849 #2459 #2364 #2328 #2327 #2303 #2264 #2156 #1938 #1901 #1566 #1530 #1408 #1382 #1335 #1278 #1163 #1134 #748 #724 #590 #564 #265 #227 #119 #108 #72 #53 #7

by aendruk

1/29/2026 at 10:36:49 PM

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.

by simtel20

1/30/2026 at 1:03:51 PM

Man I hope this delivers. I haven't been able to use Flameshot for over a year since switching to Wayland because weird shit happens with my multi-monitor setup.

by oldandboring

1/30/2026 at 4:29:16 PM

yeah i tried it the other day because spectacle feels lacking and it completely failed on my multimonitor kde wayland setup.

by weaksauce

2/2/2026 at 2:55:08 PM

I will say that over time I've adjusted to Spectacle. Having it pinned to the taskbar is a good approximation of having Flameshot in the tray. Also a nice thing about Spectacle is that the window persists after you take a screenshot so you can then initiate, for example, 'New rectangular region' and it will launch you back into sceenshot mode with a rectangle of the same dimensions as the one you just took -- making it well suited for iterating with an AI coding assistant where I give it a screenshot with examples of a bug, then re-send it another screenshot showing what still needs work.

by oldandboring

1/30/2026 at 12:44:29 AM

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

by b1temy

1/29/2026 at 10:15:50 PM

I wish ShareX was available on Linux https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX

by haunter

1/30/2026 at 8:57:01 AM

ShareX (win) > CleanShot (mac, paid) > Fireshot

just video is waaay better in cleanshot than it is in shareX (and a bit simpler to set up)

by anotheryou

1/29/2026 at 11:04:27 PM

I agree. ShareX for Windows is flawless in my opinion.

by system2

1/30/2026 at 7:18:17 AM

it by default uploads screenshots to public imgur, which was surprising and a no go for corporate setting, you can change that in setting, but it is still wants too do too many things

by treovchinn

1/30/2026 at 3:42:21 PM

I'm vaguely involved w/ ShareX, so take this however you want.

It doesn't as of a recent update (due to continued stability issues at Imgur). The default behavior is to not upload anymore.

Additionally ShareX pops up a big red warning telling you that you're about to upload. There are some forks (see: ShareNot) that explicitly remove any uploading, but by default there is a registry key, a setting, and a big warning that you can enable that disables uploading.

by CubityFirst

1/30/2026 at 6:58:44 PM

I always used my own FTP provider with my own URL. So they always looked like share.example.com/15udn18.jpg

Embeddable as well. Anyone with a website should use this method so they can maximize the use of their hosting.

by system2

1/29/2026 at 9:27:03 PM

Love flameshot. Did my due diligence for screenshot tools, found it, and never tried anything else again :)

by julius-fx

1/29/2026 at 10:55:41 PM

Same. I tried probably 6-7 different tools on Ubuntu before I found Flameshot. It was everything I was looking for.

by brightball

1/30/2026 at 4:39:51 AM

Good to know.

It was number three for me, I stopped looking and sort of wondered if there was anything else out there better.

by SV_BubbleTime

1/29/2026 at 9:54:14 PM

[flagged]

by sngltoon

1/29/2026 at 10:26:12 PM

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.

by saintfire

1/29/2026 at 10:43:19 PM

Indeed, I've been using for (2) years, ever since I switched to Wayland.

by jojomodding

1/29/2026 at 10:06:04 PM

> You did exactly zero code audit.

Couldn't see how you derived that from GP? You read their mind?

by tomcam

1/29/2026 at 11:18:57 PM

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.

by throwway120385

1/29/2026 at 8:54:50 PM

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 vzaliva

1/30/2026 at 1:57:22 AM

I have worked with Wayland + Flameshot for the past 2-3 years and it seems to work fine as far as I can tell.

by manbash

1/30/2026 at 1:04:27 PM

I'm guessing you don't have multiple monitors :)

by oldandboring

1/29/2026 at 10:00:37 PM

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.

by nickjj

1/29/2026 at 11:13:54 PM

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:(

by dfc

1/29/2026 at 11:38:43 PM

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.

by nickjj

1/30/2026 at 2:01:20 PM

Thank you so much. This has been such a pain for me when I write documentation.

by dfc

1/31/2026 at 4:35:34 AM

Try: XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=sway QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb flameshot

by vlod

1/31/2026 at 10:22:36 PM

Thank you. I tried that. Having the interface run under Xwayland caused a ton of problems with my monitors. I also don't use a lot of QT apps so not being able to paste was a problem.

by dfc

1/29/2026 at 9:25:44 PM

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.

by ktm5j

1/30/2026 at 9:21:41 AM

i've been using flameshot with wayland the last six months, simply because i didn't know i couldn't

by __del__

1/30/2026 at 7:18:36 AM

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.

by self_awareness

1/29/2026 at 8:32:30 PM

Hopefully wayland support will improve

by mog_dev

1/29/2026 at 10:09:55 PM

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.

by WinstonSmith84

1/29/2026 at 10:20:28 PM

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.

by koiueo

1/30/2026 at 11:16:11 AM

Because it's a black box you have to pay for. No source code available? Gitafuckouttahere.

by imcritic

1/30/2026 at 7:27:00 PM

> Because it's a black box [...]. No source code available?

You know Shottr is only available for macOS, don't you? If source code is so important, why do you even bother using macOS?

I wouldn't install Shottr on any of my Linux machines, even if available. Despite it being objectively better than any available alternative. I'd recreate one myself if necessary.

But on a corporate Mac, where 99.999% of executed code is a black box, why bother?

by koiueo

1/29/2026 at 11:05:34 PM

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

by shoobiedoo

1/30/2026 at 8:16:36 AM

I'm running the same, but for me it's definitely not a smooth experience compared to plasma + X. Indeed I resorted to clicking on tray icon because invocation from custom shortcut doesn't allow me to Ctrl-c (copy to clipboard). On the other hand, clicking from tray breaks Ctrl-s (save to file). Oh, well.

by fenazego

1/30/2026 at 12:46:31 AM

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.

by direwolf20

1/30/2026 at 2:01:43 AM

I see. Thank you for the explanation

by shoobiedoo

1/29/2026 at 10:31:18 PM

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 IshKebab

1/29/2026 at 11:22:46 PM

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...

by KetoManx64

1/30/2026 at 12:49:19 PM

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 greuceanu42069

1/29/2026 at 10:34:31 PM

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 morkalork

1/29/2026 at 10:50:42 PM

increase the border size. more. yes. in the bloodiest red. yes. its rectangle time

by gegtik

1/29/2026 at 8:58:31 PM

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)

by garymoon

1/29/2026 at 10:24:58 PM

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.

by koiueo

1/29/2026 at 11:23:01 PM

woah, had no idea Shutter was written in Perl

by jszymborski

1/30/2026 at 6:04:54 AM

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

by SubiculumCode

1/30/2026 at 8:46:44 AM

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!

by throwaway2037

1/30/2026 at 5:09:59 PM

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.

by nikolay

1/30/2026 at 5:23:04 PM

OS-native functionality covers this?

On Macs = cmd + shift + 4

On Windows = win + shift + s

On Gnome/KDE = shift + printscreen

by mrexcess

1/30/2026 at 10:08:17 PM

They don't let you precisely select the area of the screen you want a snapshot of!

by nikolay

1/30/2026 at 11:00:03 AM

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 major505

1/30/2026 at 4:37:37 AM

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?

by SV_BubbleTime

1/30/2026 at 10:23:50 AM

Flameshot is great! I also use it to capture different language text in images that gets piped into tesseract for offline OCR.

by akimbostrawman

1/30/2026 at 7:50:11 AM

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.

by p2hari

1/30/2026 at 12:04:32 PM

Flameshot isn't great on macOS, does anyone know of a good open source alternative they would recommend?

by figmert

1/30/2026 at 1:12:09 PM

Hard to say without knowing what your needs are. What’s wrong with using macOS’ native tools? They work great not only for capturing but for annotation. What exactly are you looking for?

by latexr

1/30/2026 at 5:12:02 PM

The app has a constant item on the bar at the bottom. Quitting that quits the whole application, I couldn't find a setting to change this behaviour. But I could live with that if it wasn't for it somehow switching desktops when you start taking a screenshot. It switches desktop, goes back to the main one, then starts the set up. Of course that also means it takes a couple of seconds before the screenshot gets taken.

by figmert

1/30/2026 at 2:13:36 PM

what do you use Flameshot for on macOS? if you want to edit stuff, you can set the screenshot tool to open the screenshot in Preview.app where you can perform basic editing on it (cmd+shift+5 and then click Options and choose "Preview" in "Save to")

by asimovDev

1/30/2026 at 5:26:53 PM

The built-in screenshot tool is the thing I'm trying to replace. Editing is less of an issue. I rarely need to edit.

by figmert

1/30/2026 at 12:10:23 PM

Funny, I found flameshot years ago looking for a Linux to Skitch. What’s lacking in the built-in tool?

by rwbaskette

1/30/2026 at 5:29:33 PM

I'm unsure what Flameshot on macOS has to do with Flameshot Linux? I used to use Flameshot on Linux, and it works great, though I've always found the built-in screenshot software for Linux good enough. The application doesn't work as smoothly on macOS and I wouldn't need a tool for screenshots if the built-in tooling was any good. It's like it was designed by someone who had created a screenshot for the first time in their life.

by figmert

1/30/2026 at 7:11:41 PM

> Flameshot isn't great on macOS

What do you mean? For what it does, it absolutely works nicely on mac.

by iLemming

1/30/2026 at 5:17:35 AM

Love Flameshot! Been using it for years since its cross platform so it works on macOS at home and Windows at work.

by syradar

1/30/2026 at 8:35:00 AM

Use Flameshot with powertoys on windows 11, powertoys can remap shortcut: win+shift+f23 to PrintScreen.

by honghe

1/30/2026 at 1:05:52 AM

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.

by shane_kerns

1/30/2026 at 2:34:22 PM

Flameshot is fantastic software. Works great on Linux and gets the job done.

by skeptrune

1/30/2026 at 4:40:15 PM

I forget why but I ended up going back to Lightshot after trying this

by _345

1/30/2026 at 2:04:28 AM

ksnip is pretty damn good too.

by tuananh

1/30/2026 at 3:37:05 PM

Was looking to see if anyone had mentioned ksnip. Agreed, it’s great.

by sirtoffski

1/30/2026 at 4:20:37 PM

Localising this in KDE + HDR in terms of clang improvements.

by rhamonrye

1/30/2026 at 7:19:46 AM

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 treovchinn

1/30/2026 at 3:35:27 AM

Flameshot is excellent! I’ve been happily using it for years.

by roggenbuck

1/30/2026 at 2:55:42 AM

How do you resize a rectangle made with the rectangle tool?

by _philipalan

1/29/2026 at 11:42:30 PM

Flameshot like Lightshot the one on chrome?

by onesandofgrain

1/30/2026 at 12:47:57 AM

Lightshot, if youre using it you should remove it and then google why.

by reboot81

1/30/2026 at 4:43:16 AM

If you have something to say, say it. People don’t have the time to go investigate, but maybe you have something interesting to claim with a source.

For all I know you found a way to tie some software to a politician you want me to hate, or the guy that wrote it donated to $50 to a cause you don’t like, or they murdered beagle puppies in some horrendous way. Just spit it out.

by SV_BubbleTime

1/30/2026 at 7:20:24 AM

Yeah. This is like clickbait titles. They hate something something for something something reason and won't tell cos it's probably something small.

They leave the comment making it look like the person made something huge. Only to find out that they didn't use the coaster while drinking his chilled beer.

And I don't care about this instance, I am not going to look it up. I have far more negative vibes about the OP in question than Lightshot.

Very bad dark pattern I've been seeing more and more these days.

by burnermore

1/30/2026 at 9:00:48 AM

Lightshot is a cloud-first screenshot tool. This means you shouldn't screenshot sensitive information. That's all I could find.

Considering that there are many tools like ShareX where uploading the screenshot is a feature, I don't really see reboot81's poor attempt at "spreading awareness" as genuine.

by imtringued

1/30/2026 at 3:20:07 AM

I love this app, use it all the time.

by richardanaya

1/30/2026 at 3:42:55 PM

Flameshot is my go to on macOS.

by duxup

1/30/2026 at 12:34:04 PM

Looks great!

by marcusrm12