Usable screenshot tools

Michael Butash michael at butash.net
Mon Nov 2 07:40:37 MST 2020


Thanks Ryan, not seen flameshot pop up in any searches, but installed and
will try here today.  Appreciate the recommendation!

-mb


On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 7:23 PM Ryan Petris <ryan at petris.net> wrote:

> I don't use KDE however I've used Flameshot for a couple of years now and
> it's always worked flawlessly in GNOME under Wayland and Xorg.
>
> https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/flameshot/
>
>
> On Sun, 2020-11-01 at 19:20 -0700, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>
> Since my last (arch) system update, I can't seem to find any screenshot
> tools that work anymore in kde.  Wondering if anyone has any
> recommendations what works for them lately
>
> I've used spectacle from kde for like a decade now as one of my favorite
> tools, and just as of a few months ago, it's gone to hell for me, and just
> crashes if I try to take a screenshot of a selected area.  Trying shutter
> recently from gnome, it sort of works at times, other times tends to crash
> when trying to take a screenshot of a selected area as well.  I've tried
> some others I've already forgotten the names of a while back, nothing seems
> to work anymore.
>
> I somewhat blame stupid wayland shenanigans in change, I'm not even using
> wayland, but all the major kde news is about wayland, that seems to just be
> bringing the whole thing down around their ankles.  Whatever kde is doing
> lately is just bringing it back 10 years in stability.
>
> It's so hard to find good software these days.
>
> -mb
>
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