What works where
| Feature | X11 | Wayland |
|---|---|---|
| Region, window and full-screen capture | Yes | Yes, through the desktop portal |
| Eight annotation tools, copy, save, drag out | Yes | Yes |
| Copy text and Auto-redact | Yes, with Tesseract | Yes, with Tesseract |
| Send to AI apps | Yes, and it can paste for you (needs xdotool) | Yes; you press paste |
| Scrolling capture and Burst | Yes | Not yet |
| Global shortcuts | Set by Glintshot | Added in your desktop’s settings (first run shows how) |
Shortcuts
Region is PrtSc, window is Alt + PrtSc and full screen is Shift + PrtSc. For a capture that waits, use the tray’s Capture after a delay (3, 5 or 10 seconds) or run glintshot --delay 5.
Copy text needs Tesseract
Copy text, Auto-redact and smart file names read text with Tesseract, on your computer. If it isn’t installed, Glintshot tells you how. On Debian and Ubuntu:
sudo apt install tesseract-ocr
Why another Linux screenshot tool
Linux has good tools for grabbing the screen. Glintshot is for what comes after: marks you can still change, text you can copy out, secrets blurred before you share, and a capture handed straight to your AI app. And it’s the same app, with the same keys and tools, on your Mac or Windows machine.
Questions
Does it work on Wayland?
Yes. On Wayland Glintshot captures through your desktop’s screenshot portal. Your desktop decides which keys reach apps, so the first run shows the commands to add as keyboard shortcuts. Scrolling capture, Burst and pasting into another app for you aren’t available on Wayland yet.
My desktop’s own screenshot tool takes PrtSc. What do I do?
GNOME and KDE bind PrtSc to their built-in tool. Remove that binding in your desktop’s keyboard settings, or give Glintshot a different key in its Settings › Shortcuts.
Which packages are there?
An AppImage, which updates itself, and a .deb for Debian, Ubuntu and their relatives.