Ksnip Alternatives

ksnip reviews and mentions

• Some might not see how much work is/was to maintain xorg server
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Nov 2023

  can also be used in non-KDE X11 desktop environments.

  which doesn't really explicitly say much, and in fact the only tool I could find that claimed to be able to support everything was ksnip, which seems to work fine with wlroots but beyond that https://github.com/ksnip/ksnip#known-issues outlines the situation well enough; KDE is at least only temporarily broken, but GNOME isn't going to improve because GNOME did that on purpose. Now, that readme says you can use xdg-desktop-portal, but I have a GNOME+Wayland machine on hand, and I couldn't get it to actually work. I think what's supposed to happen is that every time I do a screenshot it prompts for permission, which I wanted to verify so I could complain that that was totally unreasonable, but what actually happens is that it just fails, which is... not better. Oh, and while searching for solutions to that I found flameshot, but that just refuses to even run. So... maybe someday the portal solution will work; in the meantime, I feel comfortable describing the situation as Wayland not having a uniform working way of taking screenshots.

  [0] In particular, so we can avoid the situation from X11 where a load of drawing primitives are baked in that nobody has any use for anymore.

• Her mit den Office ShortCuts
  1 project | /r/Austria | 4 Jul 2023
• Ksnip
  2 projects | /r/ITProTuesday | 16 Jun 2023

  Ksnip is a simple and efficient cross-platform screenshot tool with all the essential annotation features. Whatsek raves, "Try ksnip! Went from greenshot to share, way too many features, found ksnip. Tabs... Awesome!"

• How do I restore the classic graphical interface ?
  2 projects | /r/kde | 25 Apr 2023

  Otherwise, the simplest solution is probably to either stick to the older Spectacle versions or use another screenshot tool like Flameshot or ksnip.

• What's the equivalent for snipping tool in Mint?
  1 project | /r/linuxmint | 8 Apr 2023

  ksnip - screenshot tool with annotation features. https://github.com/ksnip/ksnip

• I want screenshots to be saved into directory and get copied to the clipboard at the same time. Also, how there is no option to directly save the screenshot (it opens up a window after taking the ss asking to save it). How do I do both of these things?
  1 project | /r/linuxmint | 2 Mar 2023
• How to use ksnip application to save screenshots in JPEG XL on Windows
  3 projects | /r/jpegxl | 22 Feb 2023

  ksnip is a cross-platform screenshot and annotation tool

• Good Screenshot Tool?
  2 projects | /r/linuxmint | 17 Jan 2023
• editing screenshots
  2 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 1 Dec 2022

  Ksnip https://github.com/ksnip/ksnip

• Looking for Screenshot tool
  2 projects | /r/RockyLinux | 30 Nov 2022

  Hey, I've been using [ksnip](https://github.com/ksnip/ksnip) which works really well on both my Rocky Linux 8.7 laptop and my Ubuntu 22.04 LTS workstation. It's Qt based, so it depends on your love or hate for that, but it works VERY well.

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