maim VS Lightscreen

maim

maim (Make IMage) is a spiritual successor to scrot — a simplistic CLI-friendly screenshot tool.

Lightscreen

Lightscreen is a lightweight screen shooting application for Windows and linux used to automate the...

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to maim and Lightscreen)

Lightscreen

Screenshot Annotation

18 18%

Screenshot Annotation

82% 82

Screenshots

23 23%

Screenshots

77% 77

Image Annotation

29 29%

Image Annotation

71% 71

Window Manager

100 100%

Window Manager

0% 0

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Lightscreen Reviews

15 Best Snagit Alternatives in 2020

Lightscreen is an easy to use screen capture tool. The tool allows you to automate the process of saving and cataloging screenshots.

Source: www.guru99.com

30 Best Free Screen Capture Tools and Plugins

Lightscreen for Windows and Linux works mostly in the background and can be invoked with one or more hotkeys, like Greenshot and few others. It lets you upload the shots to Imgur and allows previewing the image in its image viewer as well.

Source: www.hongkiat.com

Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, maim should be more popular than Lightscreen. It has been mentiond 6 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

maim mentions (6)

Fast OCR to clipboard
Strange, you could try maim to capture the image instead:. Source: over 1 year ago
screenshot app
We use greenshot, I don't particularly care for it either way. On my personal computer I use maim. Source: over 1 year ago
Automatically Saving Screenshots to a folder
For example on my wm config I use maim -- printscreen ((modm .|. shiftMask, xK_s), spawn "maim -s ~/Pictures/$(date +%s).png"), ((modm .|. shiftMask, xK_x), spawn "maim -s | xclip -selection clipboard -t image/png"), Qtile is written in python and I guarantee you that you will learn plenty tinkering on your machine. Source: over 1 year ago
[OC] Meowfetch - A minimal, fast, and customizable fetch script written in golang
It's not a window manager I took screenshots using maim and edited them using GNU Image Manipulation Program. But if you're curious I use dwm as my window manager and kitty as my terminal emulator. Source: over 1 year ago
What is cursor blending?
It was mentioned in this screenshot repository, I can't seem to grasp it because when I use it, nothing out of ordinary happens. Source: over 2 years ago

Lightscreen mentions (2)

Efficient way of making jpegs out of excel cells
Setting aside the accessibility issues of posting an image of text, I would use a different method such as Lightscreen to capture the screenshots. Ctrl+Printscreen lets you define an area to capture. Screenshots are automatically saved in a folder of your choice using a filename convention you can easily setup. For doing repeated screenshots it is much faster than snipping tool. Source: over 1 year ago
Software & Tools that make life easier but aren't required.
I like lightscreen if I have to take a bunch of screenshots. Source: over 1 year ago