ShareX alternative for Linux?

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  • ShareX

    ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.

  • Having searched this and other linux related subs, I found that many questions were asked in this regard but with few solutions. For those who don't know, ShareX is a light-weight screen recorder app which bundles in several features like not just taking screenshots and uploading to sites like Imgur, etc. but also creating actual screencasts or video recordings, both using desktop or webcam as input device.

  • peek

    Simple animated GIF screen recorder with an easy to use interface

  • Peek: Allows recording portions of the screen in many file formats (GIF, MP4, WebM).

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • shutter

    Screenshot tool for Linux

  • I also used Flameshot and Shutter. Shutter was very feature rich, and I think it's the closest in terms of having the same workflow actions as ShareX -- I don't think it fully supports Wayland yet though and has a TON of dependencies. Flameshot has had issues with Wayland and IMHO as of now most of its features has been implemented in native screencaptures (and if you need the tray icon, I think on Gnome there's an Extension for screenshot icon on panel and on KDE you can just drag the desktop shortcut for Spectacle to the panel),

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