Screenshot capture that respects modern Wayland desktops.
LinScreen is a beta fork of Flameshot focused on reliable capture and annotation across GNOME, KDE Plasma, XFCE, Cinnamon, MATE, LXQt, wlroots, Wayland and X11.
linscreen gui
linscreen full --path ~/Pictures/capture.png
linscreen screen --number 0Why LinScreen exists
Flameshot is loved. Wayland needs extra care.
LinScreen keeps the familiar screenshot-and-annotate workflow while focusing development on portal-based Wayland capture, responsive native dialogs, better diagnostics, and Linux desktop packaging.
Wayland portals
Uses desktop portals on Wayland and a safe automatic X11 fallback across major Linux desktops.
Opaque redaction
Use Shift+R to cover manually selected sensitive areas with solid black before copying or saving. Raster exports contain the mask.
Local text recognition
Use Shift+T for French/English OCR with optional Tesseract. Review and edit the text before copying; the image stays on your computer.
Desktop-native interface
The interface follows the system theme and adapts its dialogs, tabs, and controls to compact or high-DPI GNOME, KDE Plasma, and XFCE desktops.
Project status
Beta, useful, and still moving.
LinScreen is not a finished downstream distribution yet. It is a practical beta fork created to make Wayland compatibility easier to test, improve, and package.
Version 14.3.2 fixes the About window for compact and high-DPI displays: a bounded icon, wrapped system details and scrollable content keep actions accessible with native Qt themes. Local French/English OCR, opaque redaction and cancellable captures remain available.
Read the 14.3.2 release notes Open an issueDebian package
Current beta builds provide a `.deb` with desktop entry, icons, DBus service, and cache refresh scripts.
AppImage
Portable x86_64 builds include Qt Wayland support and English/French Qt translation catalogs.
Flatpak
Manifest work exists, but more testing is needed for portals, permissions, and Flathub-quality packaging.
RPM
RPM packaging needs distro testing across Fedora, openSUSE, and compatible desktops.
Install
Try LinScreen 14.3.2.
Use the Debian package for desktop integration, or the AppImage for a portable test build with bundled Qt Wayland support.
sudo apt install ./linscreen_14.3.2_amd64.deb
linscreen --version
gtk-launch org.linscreen.LinScreenchmod +x LinScreen-14.3.2-x86_64.AppImage
./LinScreen-14.3.2-x86_64.AppImage --version
./LinScreen-14.3.2-x86_64.AppImageAppImage builds are portable and include Qt Wayland plus English/French Qt translation catalogs. Desktop portal packages still come from your distribution. Release files include SHA-256 checksums, a Sigstore signature bundle, and a software bill of materials.
Contribute
Help make Linux screenshots boring again.
Testing is especially welcome on GNOME, KDE Plasma, XFCE, Cinnamon, MATE, LXQt, wlroots, multi-monitor Wayland, RPM-based distributions, and Windows.