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Flameshot is a program for taking screenshots. It has an interactive GUI with controls to select the desired capture region, move and resize the capture window, make edits with common drawing tools (pencil, line, rectangle, circle, blur, undo/redo), and choose the output destination (copy to clipboard, save to disk, upload to Imgur, open with another program).

## Installation

Install the flameshot package, or flameshot-gitAUR for the development version.

## Troubleshooting

### Sub-commands exit immediately with no output

You can start Flameshot as a background process at any time during your X session:

    $ flameshot &

### No tray icon

There are probably other ways to do this. Here is just one way.

Install gnome-shell-extension-topicons-plusAUR

Then in the gnome tweaks application (may also need to download if you do not have it installed):

1. Click on the Extensions tab
2. Enable "Topicons plus" so it moves the legacy tray icons to the top panel
3. Done!

### Flameshot does not use currently visible windows

You may encounter this issue if you have installed xf86-video-intel.

Simply remove the xf86-video-intel package and make sure there is no dangling X11 configuration for the package under `/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/`.

Then reboot the system.

This was discussed in an issue on the Flameshot Github repository: https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/issues/1677.

## See also

- Official website
- Claims that using dbus-launch fixes sub-command problems: `xmonad`, `i3`

Category:

- Multimedia