Snipdeck 0.3.0 (beta)

Beta. This is a beta release. The Linux desktops were tested by hand in virtual machines and the Windows build under Wine, not on a real Windows machine — see Where it was tested below. Please report anything that goes wrong in Issues.

Snipdeck 0.3.0 is the first release built for Linux as much as for Windows: packages for the major distributions, and snips that stay on top on GNOME, KDE Plasma and X11 desktops.

Downloads

File	For
snipdeck-windows-x64.exe	Windows 10 / 11, portable, no installer
snipdeck_0.3.0-1_amd64.deb	Debian, Ubuntu, Mint: sudo apt install ./snipdeck_0.3.0-1_amd64.deb
snipdeck-0.3.0-1.x86_64.rpm	Fedora, RHEL, Rocky: sudo dnf install ./…rpm; openSUSE: sudo zypper install ./…rpm
snipdeck-linux-x64.tar.gz	Any distribution, no root: ./install.sh (into ~/.local)
SHA256SUMS	Checksums of all of the above

The Linux build needs glibc 2.30 or later: Debian 11, Ubuntu 20.04, RHEL 9 and everything newer.

What's new

Linux

• Packages (.deb, .rpm) alongside the tarball, built on Debian 11 so one binary runs on every current distribution.
• GNOME: a shell extension places snips where they were captured, keeps them above other windows, keeps them out of the overview and the dock, and adds Super+Alt+drag capture. GNOME Shell 45–51.
• KDE Plasma: a KWin script keeps snips on top, places them, puts them on every desktop and keeps them out of the taskbar. No new login needed.
• Snipdeck turns on the extension or the script itself at its first start; if you turn it off, it stays off.
• X11 (Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon, GNOME on Xorg): snips stay on top and out of the taskbar.
• sway, Hyprland: capture, OCR and the tray work. Snips float but open where the compositor puts them. On sway, bind a key to snipdeck --action snip; on Hyprland, bind the shortcuts it lists (hyprctl globalshortcuts).
• Wayland capture goes through the ScreenCast portal and PipeWire.
• Global shortcuts go through the desktop portal. They work when Snipdeck is started from a terminal as well (xdg-desktop-portal 1.19+). The application id is now com.revisetouch.Snipdeck.
• Starts in the tray when launched at login.

Everywhere

• A redesigned, quieter main window: one toolbar row.
• Your own image host: import a ShareX .sxcu uploader, choose it under Upload to. Every upload asks first, in Snipdeck's own window.
• Snips are stored as lossless WebP; existing PNGs are converted.
• The interface in 23 languages, the README in 10.
• Privacy: OCR + Translate asks before sending text to Google; no snips left in the shared /tmp; no pointer traces or window titles in logs.
• About 90 fixes: capture, the gallery, the annotation and collage editors, multi-monitor and DPI handling on Windows, the clipboard, settings that no longer reset.

Where it was tested

Each Linux desktop was tested by hand in a virtual machine from the distribution's own live image: install the package, launch from the menu, global shortcut, region capture, the tray, keep-on-top.

Desktop	Distribution	Install	Shortcuts	Capture	Kept on top
GNOME 50, Wayland	Ubuntu 26.04	.deb ✅	✅	✅	✅ (extension, after a new login)
GNOME 46, X11	Ubuntu 24.04	.deb ✅	✅	✅	fixed in this release; the fix was checked on Xfce
KDE Plasma 6.6, Wayland	Fedora 44 KDE	.rpm ✅	✅	✅	✅ (KWin script)
Xfce, X11	Fedora 44 Xfce	.rpm ✅	✅	✅	✅
sway, Wayland	Fedora 44 Sway	.rpm ✅	via --action	✅	floats, not placed
Hyprland 0.56, Wayland	Arch	tarball ✅	via config	✅	floats, not placed

The packages were also installed in containers on Debian 12 and 13, Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04, Fedora, Rocky Linux 9, openSUSE Leap 15.6, openSUSE Tumbleweed and Arch: every dependency resolved, and the binary started.

Windows: run under Wine, where the gallery, the global hotkeys, the tray, the snip menu, the collage editor and the upload window were checked. Screen capture (DXGI), OCR (Windows.Media.Ocr), Win+drag, the share sheet and mixed-DPI monitors cannot be tested under Wine and were not tested on a real Windows machine for this release.

Known limits

• On sway and Hyprland a snip opens where the compositor puts it, not over the captured region; on Hyprland it may also open larger than the region.
• On GNOME, an extension installed by a package loads at the next login.
• There is no modifier+drag capture outside GNOME: it would need a system-wide input hook.

v0.2.0

Snipdeck v0.2.0

Highlights since v0.1.0:

- Sleeping event pump: the tray-resident process now truly sleeps when
  idle instead of waking 125x/s, so it stops holding the CPU out of its
  deep sleep states.
- Eyedropper / colour picker with a magnifying loupe.
- Collage editor: combine snips into grid, rows or masonry layouts.
- Black snips fixed: empty DXGI frames are skipped and HDR displays are
  handled, on Windows 10 and 11 alike.
- Turkish-aware search: the FTS index and the query fold diacritics the
  same way, so a query typed without them still matches.
- Win-key disguise unified on the native hook.
- Floating snips no longer leave a stray taskbar button.
- Turkish UI translation.
- Groundwork for Linux/Wayland: overlay-driven selection and a tesseract
  OCR backend. NOT yet tested on a real Linux machine - Windows x64 is
  the only published binary.

v0.1.0

Snipdeck v0.1.0 — first public release (Windows x64)