Flameshot

flameshot

Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software

Detected by flameshot | macOS, Linux, Windows |flameshot.org

Sync it flameshot.toml

Sync rules

What travels, what stays, what never leaves

Flameshot in your home directory Every rule on this page, by file

savePath=

Each machine keeps its own copy of these.

Only what the catalog names. A directory that syncs brings everything inside it except what is listed as excluded here.

apps/flameshot.tomlThe file this page is generated from

id = "flameshot"

name = "Flameshot"

homepage = "https://flameshot.org"

description = "Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software"

# The apple-touch-icon from the project's homepage.

icon = "https://flameshot.org/apple-touch-icon.png"

detect = ["flameshot"]

# src/utils/confighandler.cpp constructs its QSettings as

# QSettings(QSettings::IniFormat, QSettings::UserScope, organizationName(),

# applicationName()), and src/main.cpp sets both names to "flameshot".

# https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qsettings.html gives what that resolves to for

# UserScope + IniFormat: "$HOME/.config/MySoft/Star Runner.ini" on Unix, macOS

# and iOS — "The default UserScope paths on Unix, macOS, and iOS ($HOME/.config

# or $HOME/Settings) can be overridden by the user by setting the

# XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable" — and

# "FOLDERID_RoamingAppData\MySoft\Star Runner.ini" on Windows. That is the XDG

# config home on every platform including macOS, so [configHome].

# (The USE_PORTABLE_CONFIG build instead keeps flameshot.ini beside the

# executable, which is not a home-directory location at all.)

paths = ["[configHome]/flameshot/flameshot.ini"]

exclude = []

# Drawing tools, colours and shortcuts. Flameshot has no credentials of its

# own; the Imgur upload it can do is anonymous unless the user authorizes it,

# and that token is not written into this file.

secret = []

# `savePath` (src/utils/confighandler.h: CONFIG_GETTER_SETTER(savePath,

# setSavePath, QString)) is the absolute directory screenshots are written to —

# /Users/<name>/Desktop, /home/<name>/Pictures, C:\Users\<name>\Pictures — so

# it is one machine's path spelled as a preference. The colour, the button

# list, the drawing thickness and the keyboard shortcuts beside it are exactly

# what a user wants carried over, and are deliberately not marked. The save

# directory is the user's own pick and is worth seeing again when this machine

# is rebuilt, so it is kept: backup.

[[machine_lines]]

file = "[configHome]/flameshot/flameshot.ini"

match = { prefix = ["savePath="] }

scope = "backup"

Use it with your dotfile manager

Same data, in the shape your tool already reads

Opens Otty and adds this tool to what it syncs

Opens otty://sync/add/flameshot. Otty ships with this catalog, so the link only has to name the tool — nothing is downloaded.

Every one of these is generated from the same rules as this page. None of them splits savePath= for you — that part is Otty’s own sync, or a template you write by hand.