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Screenshot tool for GNOME + Wayland

Can you recommend me a tool compatible with GNOME and Wayland, that allows taking screenshots with on-the-fly editing features like drawing or blurring?

Flameshot worked well on X11, but unfortunately, it lacks Wayland support. ShareX was a great tool on Windows; now I'm looking for something similar for Wayland.

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GNOME has one built in. Just hit the "print screen" button and it should appear.
- with on-the-fly editing features like drawing or blurring
  
  Oops, sorry I didn't notice that part. I've never seen anything like that to be honest. It kinda violates the whole "do only one thing and do it well" UNIX ethos. As a decent work-around, you can just open the resulting images in Gimp?
- with on-the-fly editing features like drawing or blurring?
  
  Unfortunately the built-in screenshot tool doesn't have any editing capabilities.
Flameshot has wayland support, however there seems to be some issues that might need to be worked around. Like https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/issues/3326#issuecomment-1854902229
- I noticed that the Flatpak didn't work on Fedora 39, probably due to how they build the flatpak or something. I had no problem taking screenshots under Fedora 39 Wayland session using the Appimage.
  
  Same. I want to use flatpak instead of the "raw" binary
Did a quick search and ksnip seems to be the only fully featured option. Watershot seems nice.

But also looking into it, Flameshot seems to have full support for Wayland so I'm not sure why you're saying it doesn't?
Don't know for Gnome, but on Wayland I use grim for screenshots. In combination with slurp I can take screenshots of parts of the screen. The names couldn't be any more stupid, but the tools work very well.
- Unfortunately, neither Grim nor slurp support GNOME
Try Satty? It's inspired by flameshot, Wayland native, and written in Rust.
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- Okay, so the vending machine works, but the buttons do nothing. Brilliant!
Taking screenshots? What's the use case for that? That's an invalid use case. Didn't you know wayland is only a protocol?
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- I'm amazed people don't get the reference to Gnome devs here. I'm not even a Gnome user and I got the joke right away.
- also, linux is only a kernel

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