This will display Flameshot's graphical capturing interface, allowing you to choose a region to snip. Flameshot provides guidance on useful starting points for Gnome and KDE.Ĭommand. You'll need to use your desktop environment's keyboard settings to configure them. Linux key bindings aren't setup by default. You'll often want to use Flameshot as your main screenshot tool. Installation instructions for all supported platforms can be found on the Flameshot website. There's also a portable AppInageįlameshot's v0.8 release series, launched last year, added support for Windows and MacOS systems. Getting Startedįlameshot can be found in the package repositories of most popular Linux distributions. Finished images are copied to the clipboard, saved to your filesystem or uploaded to Imgur. title should say runs not bugs The intended way to change this is to set drawThicknessX in flameshot.ini Flameshot Version Arch 'extra' repo (flameshot): Flameshot v12.1.0 (-) Compiled with Qt 5. You can capture and annotate screenshots using intuitive tools. Now run Flameshot as administrator Open the configuration and check the Launch at startup box. You can use the graphical menu to configure Flameshot, but alternatively you can use your terminal or scripts to do so.Flameshot is a powerful screenshot tool for the Linux desktop. Note that when you provide one or more Final Actions, theĪnd 'Pin Tool' buttons will be removed from the buttons in flameshot gui and instead you will see a 'Accept' button.

zip contains the portable that does not need installation. msi is the one that you can install, and the one that ends with. These Final Actions can be used with -accept-on-select to immediately capture the selected area immediately after the mouse release. Scroll down to find the 'Assets' as shown in the picture below (it might be collapsed, so click on the triangle on the left side to open it) Find the Windows files. For instance you can pin, copy to clipboard, save to a file, and get the geometry of the screenshot using this: flameshot gui -pin -clipboard -path '~/Pictures' -print-geometry The software also offers customization options, keyboard shortcuts, and custom color palettes through its configuration menu. The benefit of having the concept of Final Actions is that you can use more than one of them at the same time. One possible way to configure that would be to have, in addition to the upload/save/copy buttons in the capture gui, one or a few (3) configurable 'custom workflow' buttons that could be set up in the gui, with a bunch of checkboxes for each, selecting the actions each of these preset buttons would do.

-print-geometry: Write the position and dimension of the screenshot to stdout You can easily configure your print keyboard shortcut to be assigned to Flameshot.

-clipboard: Whether the screenshot should be copied to the clipboard Once done, go to Settings > Devices > Keyboard Shortcuts and scroll.

-path : Where the screenshot should be stored (can be path to the folder or the file).

These are things you would like to do after you have done with annotating your screenshot. Search for print, and unbind the screen capture function by selecting it, and clicking backspace. Permissions question should appear - grant it. Take a screenshot using flameshot - I clicked the tray icon that came from a gnome extension. In Flameshot (version 11.0.0 or later) we now have the concept of 'final actions'. Open Settings Devices Keyboard Shortcuts. Flameshot is a powerful yet simple to use screenshot software. Open flameshots settings window(I also maximized the window to lower the chances of loosing focus of that window - probably not needed) 3. In case of doubt choose the first or the second command as shortcut in your favorite desktop environment.Ī systray icon will be in your system's panel while Flameshot is running.ĭo a right click on the tray icon and you'll see some menu items to open the configuration window and the information window.Ĭheck out the information window to see all the available shortcuts in the graphical capture mode. Open GUI with a delay of 2 seconds: flameshot gui -delay 2000įullscreen capture (asking savepath): flameshot fullįullscreen capture with custom save path (no GUI) and delayed: flameshot full -path ~ /myStuff/captures -delay 5000įullscreen capture with custom save path copying to clipboard: flameshot full -clipboard -path ~ /myStuff/captures # _ command _ ArgumentĬapture with GUI with custom save path: flameshot gui -path ~ /myStuff/captures You can always use -help for all commands or subcommands of Flameshot.

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