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linuxdaddy
Thanks for the links skidoo…I haven’t had alot of time to install and
test software lately. Flameshot does what I need it to do and works. If
I really need to I could use the paint programs to edit them using the
stock screenshot utility.
Hotshots has a delay option in preferences and quite a few things I’ll
never use.
BTW calling software “bad” is the opinion of
the user and use of the software and life is to short to flamewar on
which program is better than another one. Also this has gotten way off
topic for this thread.Normal == 🙂
depends on the surrounding crowd ?!
skidoo
which application do you use to draw the circles and arrows onto the screenshots with?
Across the past couple years I had used a pygtk program named “Dappy” (Draw And Paint in PYthon) which I had downloaded from github and modded
https://github.com/ADM91/DappyCurrently I’m trialing “flameshot” (a slighty older version of is available from MX rep). It is actively developed & the devs have been responsive to feature requests. (forewarning: it’s a Qt5 program, has a high-overhead memory footprint)
linuxdaddy
Thx skiddoo,
I haven’t really messed with the drawing on screen but have seen it done by others.
So I’ll play with it…I thought maybe the programs were in the repos instead of
having to build them. BTW usually memory footprint isn’t a problem on most of my
machines I get them to 2gb ram and higher.Normal == 🙂
depends on the surrounding crowd ?!
linuxdaddy
Hey skidoo. So far flameshot is working great, It was in stretch-backports on
packages.debian.org. I have to still make a shortcut for it since it doesn’t
show up on the menu.Attachments:
Normal == 🙂
depends on the surrounding crowd ?!
noClue
@ linuxdaddy
Don’t waste your lifetime on bad software. Flameshot may get hot one day in the future, but as is in the present, it should be avoided.
Your best bets:
1. https://sourceforge.net/projects/hotshots/
2. http://shutter-project.org/
How strange is to be anything at all. (Alice in Wonderland)
skidoo
@ linuxdaddy
Don’t waste your lifetime on bad software. Flameshot may get hot one day in the future, but as is in the present, it should be avoided.
Your best bets:
Flameshot is under active development & its devs are open to entertaining feature suggestions.
Per my testing, its operation is bug-free, its UI is intuitive and its featureset covers my typical needs.
Workflow -wise, I sometimes find it desirable to feed an imagefile created by flameshot, feed it to mtpaint and apply 5% sharpening prior to uploading to imagehosting website. What’s nonsense (nonsensical) is the unsubstantiated claim that “it should be avoided”..
HotShots is a fine (python + Qt4) proggie ~~ kudos for mentioning it.
the comparative desktop session memory overhead (in case readers care to know):
34mb hotshots
57mb flameshotHotShots is chockfull of teats-on-a-bull features that one seldoms needs to use, has an overwhelming (arguably confusing) UI, and hasn’t seen active development since 2014. There is a forked version which adds Qt5 support — https://github.com/obiwankennedy/HotShots — which I’ve bookmarked & periodically do followup to check its progress.
If you (linuxdaddy) care to testdrive HotShots, ignore the borne-of-ignorance suggestion to obtain it from sourceforge.
It’s available here:
installation howto for an antiX17 64-bit system:
sudo apt-get install libqxt-core0 libqxt-gui0
cd /tmp && wget http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/h/hotshots/hotshots_2.2.0-1mx17+1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/h/hotshots/hotshots_2.2.0-1mx17+1_amd64.debinstallation howto for an antiX17 32-bit system:
sudo apt-get install libqxt-core0 libqxt-gui0
cd /tmp && wget http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/libh/libheif/heif-thumbnailer-dbgsym_1.3.2-1~mx17+1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/h/hotshots/hotshots_2.2.0-1mx17+1_amd64.debIIRC, its installation doesn’t place a .desktop launcher, so you’ll probably want to manually create one
(hint: Exec=/usr/bin/hotshots) then perform “Update Menus”a few other possible reasons HotShots may not become your goto screencap utility:
— its “arrow” tool renders lines which look like flukeworms (eeew, gross!)
— comparatively large default filesize of the imagefiles it produces, vs other tools
— comparatively more complex workflow, often involving further post-processing to apply sharpening and/or similar corrections
http://shutter-project.org/
shutter is a fine, featureful FOSS product… yet I cannot recommend its use in antiX.
YMMV. Many of my installed apps already depend Qt4/Qt5.
NONE of my installed apps depend on “all this” —v
skidoo
A quick follow-on point:
For that tall screenshot, above, I resorted to using “mirage: fullscreen, 4sec time delay”
so that I could hover and maintain visiblity of the vertical scrollbar of the synaptic dialogbox.
AFAIK, neither HotShots nor flameshot provides an optional delay.
noClue
Except of „in active developement“ there‘s not much good to say about Flameshot. But as I said, hope dies last. Maybe it’ll get better some day in future.
By the way, I‘m not the only n00b around who puts it in place with that ‘wondering interface’ and incapable of making active window screenshots.
Life is too short for the bad software.
http://www.ocsmag.com/2019/01/25/flameshot-a-shot-in-the-dark/
How strange is to be anything at all. (Alice in Wonderland)
skidoo
Hooray! we’ve been split to a new topic.
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