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Disable flash and shutter sound effect in settings #3426

Closed hendrychjan closed 2 months ago

hendrychjan commented 7 months ago

Feature Description

Hi, first, let me say that I am really happy with Flameshot, I think the devs did a great job, it is the best screenshot tool I ever used. I am really thankful. However, there is just one thing, that is really annoying me, and I couldn't find a way to turn it off. It is the flash effect, and the shutter sound. Seeing a bright flash while I am sitting in a dark room, using dark mode on windows, is quite unpleasant, and the loud shutter sound when I forget to check if my speakers are muted while I'm working in a library, makes for a great amount of really awkward moments. And I really just don't need to hear it even when I have headphones on. If it was possible to add an option into settings that would turn this off, that would be great. Thank you so much :relaxed:

mmahmoudian commented 7 months ago

We are happy that you are enjoying Flameshot and have find it useful.

Here is a bit of explanation to clarify things: In Flameshot when you ask for a screenshot we as your operating system to take a screenshot and pass it to us. We then create a fullscreen window and show you that image and allow you to annotate it. In other words, what happens during the capturing of the actual screenshot is out of our control. Any visual/sound effect if produced by your operating system. This is usually to give the user some notion of safety so that they know if some program is requesting screenshots. You most probably can find a setting in your Windows to turn this off. I found this article by a quick search:

https://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/enable-disable-screenshot-flash/

If you found the correct option, please post here along with your windows version so that other users can also benefit. Thanks.

I will keep this issue open just in case there is actually a way to ask Windows to be quiet about this, although I highly doubt that.

hendrychjan commented 7 months ago

Hi, thanks for the response. I am sorry that I didn't clarify this earlier, but I am using linux (OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, Gnome). Per your explanation, I understand that the effect is an OS thing. The default Gnome screenshot tool doesn't produce any sound, nor visual effects, just shows the screenshot overlay. So I suppose it isn't caused by Gnome, but directly by the OS OpenSUSE somehow? I have no idea how to disable it, so I will try to ask on some OpenSUSE forum and I will let you know.

alexdevos commented 6 months ago

@hendrychjan same problem here, after some searches, flash and shutter sound effect are hard coded in gnome-screenshot : see this link to disable with recompiling gnome-screenshot of https://askubuntu.com/questions/854350/disable-gnome-screenshots-camera-flash-animation and this issue on GNOME GitLab : https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/3866 to know more. (I did not try to recompile gnome-screenshot, I think I'll wait for a setting to appear...)

hendrychjan commented 6 months ago

@alexdevos thank you! I tried recompiling and it worked. I also looked at the gitlab thread, and I think it is sad that it seems to be dead..

kimjongbing commented 2 months ago

ive recompiled gnome-screenshot but flameshot still flashes, any thoughts as to why? if i run it in the cmd line it does not make the effect, i've also moved the binary so that flameshot should use it

mmahmoudian commented 2 months ago

@hendrychjan @kimjongbing this is Gnome issue and not Flameshot. Gnome is using a private API for their own software and force others to use a public API. One of the perks of this public API is that it will produce those effects when a screenshot is taken (I think they think of this as a privacy "feature").

Thanks for expressing your concerns, but there is nothing we at Flameshot can do about this. Please take your complaints to Gnome devs as they are forcing this upon user.

Personal suggestion: If you want some level of customization in your desktop environment, try avoiding Gnome. My suggestion: try KDE Plasma or Mate