What is Reddit's opinion of Flameshot?

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You should check out Flameshot, it's a pretty awesome application. As for notepad++, there are hundreds of really good editors and IDEs for linux, some of which may be closer to your preferences than others. I'm sure that if you look around and try some of them out you will find what you need.

Flameshot ce soft est génial pour la réalisation de capture d’écrans pour de la doc. Tu peux redimensionner la capture, annoter avec des numéros, flouter des parties de l’image, surligner … et c’est open source.

I prefer Flameshot as you get a lot of cool features, like adding arrows, text and so on without opening up the image on an image editor. Just replace the shortcuts with the custom Flameshot commands if anybody wants to do the same.

I would say it is fine and worth it.
As Sukyman said, it is a matter of how long your drive will last. So you are trading speed for longevity. And by the time your drive wears out, SSD's has likely gotten cheaper and better.

And +1 for ubuntu. I switch my work desktop to Ubuntu MATE for 1½ years now and run houdini, unity and blender. I'm very happy with the stability.

linuxtip: flameshot! https://flameshot.org/
Great screenshot tool where you can write little notes or pin a screenshot to screen for comparing simulations or renders.

It seems that a PPA is the only thing, that they do **not** have :) According to https://flameshot.org/#download they've got AppImage, Snap & Flatpak.

I gave the just released 0.10.2 a try and there's a change for sure - now, it doesn't work at all anymore... After clicking on the tray icon => take screenshot, a pop up is shown, saying "Unable to capture screen".

Alright, so flameshot is simply broken (at least for now). Moving on to something else.

flameshot should do the job you need: https://flameshot.org/docs/advanced/commandline-options/ . You can create a script that calls this program and then assign a hotkey in your system to run this script in example (or if it supports, then run the command directly). I think the command for it is:

flameshot full --path ~/captures

I am using spectacle for this now, which is a similar program and has such commandline options too.

Notifications can be disabled in flameshot - in ~/.config/flameshot/flameshot,ini set showDesktopNotification=false.

I don't use a notification daemon with flameshot - this is even documented in their FAQ:

https://flameshot.org/guide/faq/

hope this helps -

I'm using KDE which has a great screenshot tool baked in, however, I'm familiar with a Distro agnostic one called "flameshot" that is really well-designed, and you can set up whatever shortcuts you want: https://flameshot.org/

if you are into cropping screenshots a lot checkout Flameshot and Spectacle. Also for image viewing Gwenview is pretty clean.