Print-screen App

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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huskypenguin

in reply to brownmustardminion • 1 day ago • •

What's your DE?

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brownmustardminion

in reply to huskypenguin • 1 day ago • •

Hyprland

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Übercomplicated

in reply to brownmustardminion • 17 hours ago • •

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!

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tasankovasara

in reply to brownmustardminion • 7 hours ago • •

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.

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promitheas

in reply to brownmustardminion • 1 day ago • •

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

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Akatsuki Levi

in reply to brownmustardminion • 1 day ago • •

Flameshot, I use it everywhere and it works everywhere

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PorcupineSlippers

in reply to Akatsuki Levi • 1 day ago • •

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

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Mactan

in reply to Akatsuki Levi • 1 day ago • •

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

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Akatsuki Levi

in reply to Mactan • 2 hours ago • •

First I heard of this (but then, I'm stuck on outdated GPU so no Wayland for me T~T)

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clif

in reply to Akatsuki Levi • 6 hours ago • •

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.

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dan

in reply to brownmustardminion • 1 day ago • •

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.

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lemmeBe

in reply to dan • 19 hours ago • •

+1. Works great.

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muhyb

in reply to brownmustardminion • 1 day ago • •

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

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Mwa

in reply to brownmustardminion • 1 day ago • •

Flameshot I use it with cinnamon.

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eshep

in reply to brownmustardminion • 21 hours ago •

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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MonkderVierte

in reply to brownmustardminion • 17 hours ago • •

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.

Edit: right, magick display. I personally like viewnior better but make it less dependencies.

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