gvfs
Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs (by GNOME)
swappy
A Wayland native snapshot editing tool, inspired by Snappy on macOS (by jtheoof)
| gvfs | swappy | |
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| 2 | 21 | |
| 76 | 918 | |
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| 9.0 | 4.4 | |
| 6 days ago | 16 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
gvfs
Posts with mentions or reviews of gvfs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-18.
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Lighter alternative to GIMP?
As far as I know GVFS has nothing to do with content indexing, that task is accomplished by trackerd. GVFS is very lightweight and is needed to let applications access files that are not present on the local filesystem but are on external devices (e g. MTP), network shares (e.g. HTTPS, WEBDAV) or cloud services (GOOGLE PHOTO) ecc.
- Something broke my fstab Synology network drive mapping
swappy
Posts with mentions or reviews of swappy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-09.
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MSPaint like tool for Linux
I think swappy works great as a screenshot annotation tool.
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Trying to use Swappy for the First Time
It will save the file in save_dir (see config section)
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Suggest me: Screenshot tool with anotation
Use any wayland compatible screenshot tool and pipe it into Swappy
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bindsym not working with flameshot
I combine grimshot + swappy to get something similar to Flameshot. Not as good, but it has the advantage of... actually working on Sway.
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How I chose the right screenshot tool for my Linux
I personally use grim + slurp + swappy, and i love it! :)
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redshift like gui application
If you want to edit the screenshot, pipe it through swappy
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swaywm color picker
For those sort of simple jobs, you might find that swappy is enough (and much faster to start and simpler to use).
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Screenshot in Sway
My fav is swappy.
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Lighter alternative to GIMP?
Sounds like Swappy. https://github.com/jtheoof/swappy
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What apps are you running on Sway? (Wayland Native Apps of course)
Screenshots: grim + slurp + swappy
What are some alternatives?
When comparing gvfs and swappy you can also consider the following projects:
kImageAnnotator - Tool for annotating images
grim - Grab images from a Wayland compositor
mpv-image-viewer - Configuration, scripts and tips for using mpv as an image viewer
sway-borders - Fork of sway with some extra features, mainly related to borders.
qutebrowser - A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on Python and Qt.
clipman - A simple clipboard manager for Wayland
flameshot - Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software :desktop_computer: :camera_flash:
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
ksnip - ksnip the cross-platform screenshot and annotation tool
wayland-protocols - Wayland protocol development (mirror)
drawing - Simple image editor for Linux
slurp - Select a region in a Wayland compositor