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.

  • Daniel Quinn
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    11 months ago

    GNOME has one built in. Just hit the “print screen” button and it should appear.

      • Daniel Quinn
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        411 months ago

        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?

        • My Password Is 1234OP
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          111 months ago

          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

          • zeluko
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            111 months ago

            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.

    • Daniel F.
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      111 months ago

      with on-the-fly editing features like drawing or blurring?

      Unfortunately the built-in screenshot tool doesn’t have any editing capabilities.

    • @snaggen@programming.dev
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      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.

        • Strit
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          111 months ago

          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.

  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬
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    11 months ago

    Don’t know for Gnome, but on Wayland I use grim for screenshots. In combination with slurp I can take screenshots of parts of the screen. The names couldn’t be any more stupid, but the tools work very well.

  • @guh65@futurology.today
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    Taking screenshots? What’s the use case for that? That’s an invalid use case. Didn’t you know wayland is only a protocol?