January 29, 2026
Snip wars: Wayland vs Flameshot
Flameshot
Beloved screenshot tool fans adore—then bicker over the Wayland leap
TLDR: Flameshot, the beloved screenshot app with built‑in editing, now touts beta support for Wayland, the newer Linux display system. Fans rave about decade-long loyalty, while a noisy crowd debates Wayland readiness—some won’t switch until it’s solid, others cheer the progress and share clever workflows.
Flameshot, the cult‑favorite screenshot app with easy editing, custom looks, and one‑click uploads, is back in the spotlight—and the comments are pure chaos. Superfan cullenking basically wrote a love letter: 10+ years in, hotkeys everywhere, and a slick workflow that “dump[s] to s3” for instant sharing thanks to screendrop. Another confessed they ditched an old rival, saying they “don’t regret switching” and run it daily on Debian + XFCE. Keyboard ninjas bragged about the built‑in shortcuts—P for Pencil, B for Pixelate—like it’s gamer cheat codes for office life.
Then came the drama: Wayland wars. (Quick explainer: Wayland is the newer display system for Linux; tools sometimes struggle to capture screens cleanly.) mog_dev sighed, “hopefully Wayland support will improve,” while vzaliva admitted Flameshot was “one of the reasons” they hadn’t switched to Wayland—until whispers of beta support surfaced. That set off the classic internet chorus: Team “It’s ready, live a little” versus Team “Wake me when it’s perfect.” Meanwhile, vitaminCPP dropped a gem: a recent PR that’s “awesome and pretty funny,” sending readers into an open‑source soap opera via this PR thread. Verdict from the crowd? Flameshot stays king of screenshots—even if Wayland is still the cliffhanger everyone argues about.
Key Points
- •Flameshot is a screenshot tool with customizable appearance, in-app editing, a DBus interface, and Imgur upload support.
- •Usage includes GUI and CLI commands for capturing, delaying, saving to custom paths, copying to clipboard, and printing PNG bytes.
- •A system tray icon provides access to configuration and information windows when Flameshot is running.
- •On Windows, flameshot.exe does not output console text; flameshot-cli.exe should be used for console output.
- •Configuration can be managed via CLI and config files located at ~/.config/flameshot/flameshot.ini (Linux) and C:\Users\{YOURNAME}\AppData\Roaming\flameshot\flameshot.ini (Windows), with extensive GUI keyboard shortcuts available.