Flameshot

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2020–2026), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with Flameshot, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 8 complaints

Switches desktops before capturing, causing a delay of a couple of seconds2026-01-30
Shortcut invocation blocks Ctrl-C copy, tray invocation breaks Ctrl-S save2026-01-30
Can't select and move annotation objects like text boxes and arrows after placing them2024-06-11
Must click a share button in a special window every time before each screenshot2022-01-25
Built-in screenshot tool's popups and menus disappear before the user can use them2021-03-13
Two-second delay after hotkey press, and freezes the computer when low on RAM2021-02-13
Unusable on laptop because it does not handle fractional display scaling2021-02-13
Screenshot tool is sluggish and bloated to use2020-02-25