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Hopefully wayland support will improve

Maybe try Spectacle. I use the OOTB Spectacle app on Fedora KDE. It has the same features as Flameshot and is .. well, native.

But on my Mac, I use indeed Flameshot, it's not ideal (the window is "shrinking" when a screenshot is captured), but it's better than any alternative I tried.

Why would you use anything but Shottr on macOS?

I'm not affiliated, but the software is simply on a whole different level. They deserve all the fame.

Because it's a black box you have to pay for. No source code available? Gitafuckouttahere.

> Because it's a black box [...]. No source code available?

You know Shottr is only available for macOS, don't you? If source code is so important, why do you even bother using macOS?

I wouldn't install Shottr on any of my Linux machines, even if available. Despite it being objectively better than any available alternative. I'd recreate one myself if necessary.

But on a corporate Mac, where 99.999% of executed code is a black box, why bother?

Huh? I'm running kde plasma on wayland and flameshot runs like a dream come true. I hit the flameshot icon in the tray, it automatically selects the whole screen to save, or if I click it starts cropping wherever I move the mouse. It's like the devs read my mind for exactly what I wanted

Every Wayland compositor has a different feature set, and KDE is one of the more open to implementing features. It's likely that other people have compositors that stubbornly refuse to implement screenshots for security reasons.

I see. Thank you for the explanation

I'm running the same, but for me it's definitely not a smooth experience compared to plasma + X. Indeed I resorted to clicking on tray icon because invocation from custom shortcut doesn't allow me to Ctrl-c (copy to clipboard). On the other hand, clicking from tray breaks Ctrl-s (save to file). Oh, well.

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