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Screenshot tool

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
linux

Research direction

Start by reviewing the listed alternatives—xfce4-screenshooter, Flameshot, Peek, and Kooha—and the linked ShareX reference. Compare screenshot and GIF-capture coverage, then update the Screenshot tool notes with a suitable recommendation, installation details, and known limitations; remove the TODO when the recommendation is documented.

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Description

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Expected

Something as good as ShareX (GitHub repo) that I used on Windows

Potential solutions

Screenshot tool

  • Built-in: xfce4-screenshooter (just search for Screenshot in the apps)

  • https://flameshot.org/

    • pamac install flameshot
    • No gif capture
    • Works fine for basic screenshotting
  • pamac install peek ✔️

  • pamac install kooha ❌

    Error output
    Failed to start recording
    
    Caused by:
        0: Check out <a href="https://github.com/SeaDve/Kooha#-it-doesnt-work">It Doesn't Work page</a> for help.
        1: Failed to create ScreencastSession
        2: Failed to create session
        3: Interaction was ended in some other way with response Variant { ptr: 0x5629a1b918d0, type: VariantTy { inner: "a{sv}" }, value: "@a{sv} {}" }
    

    Error as of 2024-02-09:

    Failed to start recording
    
    Caused by:
        0: Check out <a href="https://github.com/SeaDve/Kooha#-it-doesnt-work">It Doesn't Work page</a> for help.
        1: Failed to create ScreencastSession
        2: Failed to create session
        3: Failed to call `CreateSession` with parameters: Variant { ptr: 0x5618d5dee260, type: VariantTy { inner: "(a{sv})" }, value: "({'session_handle_token': <'kooha_0'>, 'handle_token': <'kooha_1'>},)" }
        4: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface “org.freedesktop.portal.ScreenCast” on object at path /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop
    
  • TODO: Find something better

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