flameshot-org/flameshot
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Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software :desktop_computer: :camera_flash:
28 mentions on Hacker News by 27 people: 6 stories, 22 comments · first 2018-01-08 · latest 2026-01-30
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…tool uses an interesting variant of pixelation that does protect the text from unredaction: https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/commit/533a1b7d55... > Since pixelation does not protect the contents of the pixelated area (see e.g.…
comment by alright2565 · 2025-12-28 · in Never Use Pixelation to Hide Sensitive Text (2014) -
…and it turns out that support for the XDG Portal approach was added to it almost 5 years ago : https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/pull/1272 And if you peek around the diff, you can tell that KDE/GNOME-specific support, on Wayland -…
comment by eddyb · 2025-11-29 · in KDE going all-in on a Wayland future -
…screenshots from one day to the other, eventually finding out the root cause thanks to this fix: https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/pull/4127 Whenever Linux package management and shared dependencies are mentioned, people always…
comment by perching_aix · 2025-08-23 · in Acronis True Image costs performance when not used -
…Microsoft. Too bad the Shipping Too sucks eggs compared to flameshot (now available on Windows!): https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot#preview ;)
comment by shrimp_emoji · 2023-04-14 · in Microsoft to change PrintScreen button to open the Snipping Tool in Windows 11 -
Are you sure? On GNOME on Wayland? It works with Sway because of https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/blob/master/docs/... but last I heard GNOME refuses to implement this.
comment by oauea · 2022-03-21 · in Tell HN: Gnome on Wayland Is Amazing -
And this has made flameshot not able to work under Gnome: https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/issues/1910
comment by VitalyAnkh · 2021-10-18 · in Gnome doesn't allow other applications to access its private API -
…script and Apache Tika ( https://tika.apache.org/ ). You could script this together in minutes. Try https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot and feed the results through Tika to OCR the results.
comment by fils · 2021-07-27 · in APSE – A Personal Search Engine -
Flameshot could do with this feature https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/issues/702
comment by hendry · 2021-05-22 · in Show HN: I wrote a free Mac app to OCR any text on screen -
0.9.x still has quite a few issues including not working well on scaled hidpi setups on Wayland. https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/issues https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/issues/1408
comment by gideon13 · 2021-03-13 · in Flameshot – Simple, powerful screenshot tool for all major operating systems -
…Flameshot for example, evaluated using xdg-desktop-portal and determined it wasn't suitable (seeh ttps://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/issues/446#issuecomment-774372329). It is also notably missing a way to request a…
comment by thayne · 2021-02-21 · in Wayland on Wine: A First Update -
Maybe open an issue on GitHub? https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/issues/
comment by lebaux · 2021-02-13 · in Flameshot – Superb Screenshot Tool -
…the "power" was diversified in multiple parties. It was a whole process, you can read about it here https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/issues/789
comment by lebaux · 2021-02-13 · in Flameshot – Superb Screenshot Tool -
…unusable because Flameshot does not support fractional scaling. There’s an open issue in GitHub https://github.com/lupoDharkael/flameshot/issues/564 with many folks hitting this but it doesn’t look like the project is maintained
comment by kvz · 2021-02-13 · in Flameshot – Superb Screenshot Tool -
…that i just built from source following the readme instructions (needed some help with qt https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/issues/586 ) and it works fine. however the text size is too small and thats a dealbreaker:…
comment by swyx · 2021-02-13 · in Flameshot – Superb Screenshot Tool -
I was referring to the gif on the GitHub README here: https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/#preview (sorry if I was vague) In this project's case, it showcases a lot of features as they're actually used, rather than some bullets that…
comment by kylegill · 2021-02-12 · in Flameshot – Superb Screenshot Tool -
…download page links to the latest release page on GitHub who don't have the Windows installer yet https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/releases/tag/v0.8... The previous version have it! https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/relea…
comment by pentagrama · 2021-02-12 · in Flameshot – Superb Screenshot Tool -
Probably not unless the reply to this issue from 2018 https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/issues/381 is hinting about a rc file instead of recompiling with the button disabled in qmake. Edit: I went on reading the code. The image…
comment by pmontra · 2021-02-12 · in Flameshot – Superb Screenshot Tool -
…the entire Zapier company using Apple? I currently use flameshot for Ubuntu which works pretty well https://github.com/lupoDharkael/flameshot
comment by gitgud · 2020-04-08 · in Show HN: Zappy, a fast, free screen capture tool for macOS from Zapier -
flameshot for screenshots - https://github.com/lupoDharkael/flameshot almost everything is perfect.
comment by dafsdfsd · 2019-10-13 · in Ask HN: What are your favorite Linux applications? -
…Jumpapp for quickly launching or switching between windows [3] They are all desktop agnostic. [1]: https://github.com/lupoDharkael/flameshot [2]: https://albertlauncher.github.io [3]: https://github.com/mkropat/jumpapp
comment by ayoisaiah · 2018-12-13 · in Ask HN: What linux desktop tools/apps boosted your productivity?