Flameshot

Kde’s Spectacle is awesome

it doesn’t really suit my needs.

What are your needs?

scrot if you want to use the CLI, (KDE) Spectacle if you need a UI.

@brownmustardminion I use KDE’s Spectacle, and I like it a lot!

magick import of imagemagick has a crosshair. Here’s my function:

screnshot() {
    ## script to make screenshots with imagemagick's import command and display them
    ## usage: screenshot <path> <name>

    _id="$(date "+%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S")"
    _dir="${1:-$XDG_CACHE_HOME}"
    _shot="$_dir"/"${2:-shot_$_id}.png"

    mkdir -p "$_dir"
    printf '%s\n' "$_shot"
    magick import "$_shot" && \
    magick display "$_shot"
}

And good old xfce4-screenshooter, xfce4-screenshooter -r and xfce4-screenshooter -w.

Edit: right, magick display. I personally like viewnior better but make it less dependencies.

Flameshot, I use it everywhere and it works everywhere

Flameshot I use it with cinnamon.

@brownmustardminion I think you’d be fine still usin swappy, just use it in a way that does what you need. I use maim piped to xclip as below, then I tie each of those cases to [PrScr] with different modkeys.

case "${1}" in
    area)     maim --hidecursor -s |tee $HOME/Pictures/Screenshots/$(date +%y%m%d-%H%M%S).png |xclip -selection clipboard -t image/png
    ;;
    savew)    maim --hidecursor -i $(xdotool getactivewindow) |tee $HOME/Pictures/Screenshots/$(date +%y%m%d-%H%M%S).png |xclip -selection clipboard -t image/png
    ;;
    savef)    maim --hidecursor |tee $HOME/Pictures/Screenshots/$(date +%y%m%d-%H%M%S).png |xclip -selection clipboard -t image/png
    ;;
esac

I don’t know about Swappy but I use Grim + Slurp.

Not sure what the MacOS one is, but i use flameshot and im happy with it

What’s your DE?

I honestly just use a shellscript bound to a key because I think all of the screenshot software on Linux is garbage.

https://drkt.eu/files/scripts/ss.sh

I like the default one in KDE (Spectacle). It does everything I need, and can take both screenshots and recordings. I don’t think it works with other DEs though.