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Screenshot tool for GNOME + Wayland (lemmy.world)

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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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[–] isVeryLoud 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll be honest, I don't like having to hack things together.

I'm also looking for a one-stop-shop screenshot and edit tool that I can just install and it'll just work. GNOME's screen shot tool is good, but I wish it opened the screenshots in a lightweight editor app, not GIMP, which is a full image editing suite and makes things like circling, drawing arrows, etc. more complicated than it should be for a screenshot editor. Not impossible, but more complicated.

[–] danielquinn 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well theoretically, you can use the above with any image editor. I just reached for Gimp 'cause it's common. I get that you'd prefer something all-in-one, but I've not heard of something like that (in any OS actually).

What is pretty cool about this method though is that you could conceivably use any program in place of Gimp here, including an arbitrary script you wrote to automatically do the image edits you want. If that's of interest to you, you might want to look at imagemagick or Python's Pillow library.

[–] isVeryLoud 1 points 1 year ago

Windows' default screenshot viewer, snipping tool, lets you edit and censor screenshots.

Regarding the script, my point is you have to assume I have no idea how to program and have no interest in programming, but I still want this feature that's available in Windows 10 and 11. Personally, I program all day, the last thing I want is to program some more for my own computer. It needs to just work.

I get the UNIX methodology of do one thing and do it well, but that methodology doesn't work on a modern desktop as it requires a lot of glue on the user's part. A lot of users who aren't interested in tech or aren't tech savvy are simply going to assume that what they want is impossible, because as far as they are concerned, it is impossible.

Now I'm actually tempted to go out of my way to write a Libadwaita app that integrates with GNOME in some way to handle screenshots and let users edit them before putting them in their clipboards. Your average end user could simply grab this from Flathub and install it without hassle or technical know-how.