Flameshot
by OsrsNeedsf2P on 1/29/2026, 7:30:35 PM
https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot
Comments
by: socalgal2
This has the same issue as most screenshot software, it's out of date relative to modern devices.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.<p>I tried putting up an HDR image and then capturing the screen. All HDR brightness was gone from the image.<p>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.<p>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).
1/29/2026, 10:03:14 PM
by: self_awareness
Spectacle for KDE is also a good choice.<p><a href="https://apps.kde.org/spectacle/" rel="nofollow">https://apps.kde.org/spectacle/</a><p>I found Flameshot to work flawlessly only on Linux X11 and Windows. Other platforms (Wayland, macOS) have problems.
1/30/2026, 7:18:36 AM
by: cullenking
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.<p><a href="https://github.com/kingcu/screendrop" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/kingcu/screendrop</a>
1/29/2026, 8:22:16 PM
by: b1temy
I used to really like this software, and I still do. But there were a couple of dealbreakers for me.<p>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).<p>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. <a href="https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/issues/564" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/issues/564</a>
1/30/2026, 12:44:29 AM
by: vitaminCPP
Great software.<p>On a small note: This recent PR is both awesome and pretty funny to me.<p><a href="https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/pull/4498#issue-3863178293" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/pull/4498#issue-3...</a>
1/29/2026, 8:45:03 PM
by: SubiculumCode
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
1/30/2026, 6:04:54 AM
by: julius-fx
Love flameshot. Did my due diligence for screenshot tools, found it, and never tried anything else again :)
1/29/2026, 9:27:03 PM
by: haunter
I wish ShareX was available on Linux <a href="https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX</a>
1/29/2026, 10:15:50 PM
by: vzaliva
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.
1/29/2026, 8:54:50 PM
by: gnabgib
Popular in:<p>2022 (114 points, 30 comments) <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30071766">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30071766</a><p>2021 (335 points, 84 comments) <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26113753">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26113753</a>
1/30/2026, 3:22:59 AM
by: syradar
Love Flameshot! Been using it for years since its cross platform so it works on macOS at home and Windows at work.
1/30/2026, 5:17:35 AM
by: mog_dev
Hopefully wayland support will improve
1/29/2026, 8:32:30 PM
by: garymoon
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)
1/29/2026, 8:58:31 PM
by: roggenbuck
Flameshot is excellent! I’ve been happily using it for years.
1/30/2026, 3:35:27 AM
by: shane_kerns
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.
1/30/2026, 1:05:52 AM
by: _philipalan
How do you resize a rectangle made with the rectangle tool?
1/30/2026, 2:55:42 AM
by: richardanaya
I love this app, use it all the time.
1/30/2026, 3:20:07 AM
by: tuananh
ksnip is pretty damn good too.
1/30/2026, 2:04:28 AM
by: SV_BubbleTime
It’s VERY GOOD…<p>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?
1/30/2026, 4:37:37 AM
by: onesandofgrain
Flameshot like Lightshot the one on chrome?
1/29/2026, 11:42:30 PM
by: morkalork
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 <i>yes, you see this shit here? How about a nice big arrow so you don't fucking miss it</i>
1/29/2026, 10:34:31 PM
by: IshKebab
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.<p>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.<p>(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!)<p>I do use ShareX on Windows for video recordings but Spectacle is better.
1/29/2026, 10:31:18 PM