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Screenshot tool for GNOME + Wayland (self.linux)

submitted 10 months ago by mypasswordis1234 to c/[email protected]

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Can you recommend me a tool compatible with GNOME and Wayland, that allows taking screenshots with on-the-fly editing features like drawing or blurring?

Flameshot worked well on X11, but unfortunately, it lacks Wayland support. ShareX was a great tool on Windows; now I'm looking for something similar for Wayland.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Taking screenshots? What's the use case for that? That's an invalid use case. Didn't you know wayland is only a protocol?

[–] bus_factor 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I'm amazed people don't get the reference to Gnome devs here. I'm not even a Gnome user and I got the joke right away.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I guess most people got the reference, but it is just a very tired "joke" that just isn't funny.... and I can't remember if it was even funny in 2000 when the joke was starting to get popular, but I guess not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

What's the reference

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't get it either. I'd like to be educated on the topic. What do I look for?

[–] bus_factor -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

This was the best writeup of the controversy I could find with a quick Google search:

https://felipec.wordpress.com/2023/03/04/one-decade-later-gnome-still-sucks/

Edit: Love that I'm being downvoted for providing context. I don't even have a horse in this race. Last time I used Gnome was years before Gnome 3 came out.

[–] TheGrandNagus 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

TL;DR: the changes made to Gnome well over a decade ago aren't my cup of tea so that means the devs are evil pieces of shit who hate their users.

Gnome 3 was announced in, what, 2008? And released a little while after. I think people need to let go. The workflow being very different to Windows/MacOS is not a personal attack.

[–] superbirra 1 points 10 months ago

also, linux is only a kernel