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joaomendonca

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2023-09-20

Posts: 18

Screenshot/Capture tool on Linux

I've been on Linux for the last 2 weeks. It's amazing... So much better than windows is so many ways.

The only thing I'm missing from windows so far is ShareX. An insanely useful tool to take screenshots, mp4 recordings, or GIFs in a very practical manner. I'm struggling a bit to find something of equal value on linux.

I'm on arch using gnome. (Already tried a bunch of tools, KDE spectacle doesn't let me record video unless I use KDE, flameshot is amazing but only takes screenshots, gnome-screenshot and Peek the same...)

Now I stumbled upon this [guide to run shareX through wine](https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX/issues/6531), which seems awesome so I tried to install wine through yay and now I'm blocked by a rate limit 429 error from AUR because the previous yay -S wine got stuck on an infinite loop of "no AUR package found for lib32-xxx" and I sadly let it run infinitely waiting for something to happen lol...

**What a mess, any tips / tools / ways to fix the above?**

What I want is -> Press shortcut -> Select area on the screen -> Screenshot / mp4 / GIF

mpan

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Registered: 2012-08-01

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Re: Screenshot/Capture tool on Linux

Since I use Xfce, I use xfce4-screenshooter for taking pictures. A popular DE-independent tool is command-line scrot.

I rarely need to take videos and, when I did, I just used ffmpeg. But there is many screen capture programs for Arch Linux listed at the wiki.

Last edited by mpan (2023-09-27 14:29:29)

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ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,612

Re: Screenshot/Capture tool on Linux

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Screen_capture#GNOME

You may also want to investigate grim and slurp
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Screen_capture#Wayland

Last edited by ewaller (2023-09-27 14:40:22)

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