Flameshot

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-git^AUR for the development version.

Troubleshooting

Sub-commands exit immediately with no output

Option 1: Use dbus-launch

Some X clients (dwm, i3, xmonad, possibly others) must be started with dbus-launch in order for Flameshot to start when using its sub-commands (e.g., flameshot gui, flameshot config).

For example, using xinit:

~/.xinitrc

...

exec dbus-launch dwm

See dbus-launch(1) for more information.

Option 2: Run as background process

Alternatively, 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-plus^AUR

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

Click on the Extensions tab
Enable "Topicons plus" so it moves the legacy tray icons to the top panel
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.