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Mark Shot – screenshot and annotation tool

July 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, Graphics, GUI

Mark Shot is a high-performance screenshot and annotation tool built with Qt 6. It supports Linux desktops running Wayland or X11.

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HyprQuickFrame – screenshot utility for Hyprland

February 18, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

HyprQuickFrame is a native screenshot utility for Hyprland built with Quickshell.

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termframe – render terminal output as SVG screenshots

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

termframe renders commands and piped terminal output into styled SVG screenshots, supporting colours, automatic sizing and custom themes.

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lqth – minimal X11 screenshot utility

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

lqth captures X11 screens, individual windows and regions, sending Farbfeld image data to standard output for command-line pipelines.

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sneemok – screenshot tool

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

sneemok is a Wayland screenshot annotation tool written in Zig.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Corel Capture

April 17, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

Corel Capture is software which captures and saves images of your computer screen with one click, including the entire screen and windows.

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grim – command-line screenshots for Wayland desktops

April 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

grim captures Wayland desktops, outputs and regions to PNG, JPEG or PPM, with controllable scaling, compression and standard output.

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shotman – interactive Wayland screenshots from the command line

April 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

shotman captures Wayland screenshots using CLI targets and displays an interactive thumbnail for copying, dismissing or deleting images.

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scrot – command-line screen capture utility

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

scrot captures X11 screens, windows and monitor regions from the command line, with interactive selection, thumbnails and scriptable output.

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ScreenCloud

ScreenCloud – screenshot sharing tool

February 1, 2021 Steve Emms Desktop, Productivity, Reviews, Software, Utilities

ScreenCloud is a screenshot tool that’s designed for network services such as Dropbox and Imgur.

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Flameshot-Extra

flameshot – simple to use screenshot program

August 20, 2018 Luke Baker Graphics, GUI, Reviews, Software

Being able to take a screenshot comes in handy so many times. Linux is blessed with a good range of competent screenshot software. One which has recently caught our attention is Flameshot, an easy to use, open source, Qt-based screenshot utility which is adept at capturing custom areas of a desktop.

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