{"id":66596,"date":"2022-08-20T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=66596"},"modified":"2022-08-20T09:00:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T09:00:30","slug":"whats-your-favorite-screenshot-tool-on-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=66596","title":{"rendered":"What’s your favorite screenshot tool on Linux?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What’s your favorite screenshot tool on Linux?<\/span>
\nAmyJune Hineline<\/a><\/span>
\nSat, 08\/20\/2022 – 03:00<\/span><\/p>\n

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As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, and while that’s not always the case with terminal commands and code, it still holds true for the graphical desktop. Screenshots capture precisely what’s on your screen. I love taking them to have a record of who attends meetings, so I don’t have to write it down at the moment. Or to capture a bug when doing UI testing. We all take them for different reasons, though, and there are more ways to take a screenshot than you might at first think.<\/p>\n

I started thinking about screenshots after Jim Hall wrote an article listing GNOME screenshots, GIMP, and Firefox<\/a> as the ways he often takes screenshots. And yet that’s just the beginning, as I quickly found out when I asked Opensource.com authors how they each take screenshots.<\/p>\n

Making a spectacle<\/h2>\n
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\"Spectacle\"<\/div>\n
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(Seth Kenlon, CC BY-SA 4.0)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

I use Spectacle. It works perfectly for my simple needs.<\/p>\n

\u2014David Both<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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I use KDE. It ships with Spectacle, which seems to be responsible for taking a screenshot when I push the PrtScr<\/strong> (Print Screen) key.<\/p>\n

A nice feature is that the default action is to take a screenshot immediately when you press PrtScr<\/strong>, but then it brings up the Spectacle interface, so you can take more sophisticated screenshots (a rectangular area, the window under your cursor, and so on.)<\/p>\n

\u2014Greg Pittman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Framing the shot<\/h2>\n

For a long time I had wanted to capture only a small amount of the screen in a screenshot, not the whole thing, but struggled to know how.<\/p>\n

Since then I’ve installed KolourPaint. I open the full screenshot inside the program, and cut out the part I want to keep. Hope this could help others suffering the same screenshot dilemma!<\/p>\n

\u2014Laurence Urhegyi<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

I use Shift<\/strong>+PrtSc<\/strong> to capture a small amount of the screen in a screenshot.<\/p>\n

\u2014Agil Antony<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Emacs<\/h2>\n

A while back I created an Elisp function<\/a> to take a screenshot from Emacs.<\/p>\n

\u2014Sachin Patil<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Flameshot<\/h2>\n
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\"Flameshot\"<\/div>\n
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Flameshot<\/a>, the one and only! Nothing is missing in this wonderful tool: doodling, arrows, adding text, a pixelate tool for blurring out sensitive information, an autoincrementing counter bubble, save, copy, the ability to open the screenshot in a selected application, and the list goes on and on. Once I installed it, I’ve never looked for anything else!<\/p>\n

A friendly hint: when installing from Flatpak, you might want to use Flatseal<\/a> to grant access to your home folder, otherwise the Save dialog will feel somewhat empty.<\/p>\n

\u2014Tomasz Waraksa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

ImageMagick<\/h2>\n
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#!\/bin\/bash<\/span>
current<\/span>=$(<\/span>date<\/span> +%<\/span>H-%<\/span>M-%<\/span>S-%<\/span>d-%<\/span>m-%<\/span>Y)<\/span>.png
if<\/span> [<\/span>[<\/span> -z<\/span> \"${1}<\/span>\"<\/span> ]<\/span>]<\/span>; then<\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0import -window<\/span> root \"${HOME}<\/span>\/${current}<\/span>\"<\/span> # All screen<\/span>
else<\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0import \"${HOME}<\/span>\/${current}<\/span>\"<\/span> # Custom screenshot<\/span>
fi<\/span>

\nnotify-send \"Screenshot ${current}<\/span> taken successfully!\"<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/pre>\n
\u2014Suporte Terminal Root<\/strong><\/p>\n
GNOME<\/h2>\n
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  \"GNOME<\/div>\n
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(Seth Kenlon, CC BY-SA 4.0)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n
As a mostly GNOME Desktop user, I was happy taking screenshots with the regular PrtSc<\/strong>, Ctrl<\/strong>+PrtSc<\/strong>, or Shift<\/strong>+PrtSc<\/strong> keys. My favorite is Shift<\/strong> because it allows me to select an area of the screen.<\/p>\n
Recently, GNOME recently introduced an improved screenshot tool when you simply hit PrtSc<\/strong>. I haven’t even used it that much yet, so I’m looking forward to trying it out thoroughly on some future articles.<\/p>\n
\u2014Alan Formy-Duval<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
As a satisfied GNOME user, I’ve been using the built-in screenshot tool. With the older version, I would screenshot a window with Shift<\/strong>+PrtSc<\/strong>. Now I just use PrtSc<\/strong> and select the region with the tool. I like the new one better, but if I had to go back to the old, that’d be OK too.<\/p>\n
\u2014Chris Hermansen<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
XFCE Screenshooter<\/h2>\n
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  \"XFCE<\/div>\n
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(Seth Kenlon, CC BY-SA 4.0)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n
I’ve been using XFCE lately, and xfce4-screenshooter<\/strong> has been doing an excellent job. Like the rest of XFCE, it’s minimal but highly functional, with options to capture the entire screen, the active window, or just a region. You can even activate or deactivate whether the mouse cursor is included in the shot.<\/p>\n
\u2014Klaatu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
Grim and Slurp<\/h2>\n
I have a fun little alias that I use for screenshots:<\/p>\n
\nalias<\/span> sshot<\/span>='; grim -g \"$(slurp)\" screenshot-$(date +%s).png 2> \/dev\/null'<\/span><\/code><\/span><\/pre>\n
It lets me draw a rectangle on my screen, and it captures just that area. The command uses grim<\/strong> and slurp<\/strong>, both available in the Fedora repos.<\/p>\n
But this only works on Wayland. On X11, you can replace them with maim<\/strong> and scrot<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
Your screenshot tool<\/h2>\n
What’s your screenshot tool of choice? Tell us in the comments!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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There are many open source screenshot tools to choose from, but which one works for you?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Linux<\/a><\/div>\n
Opensource.com community<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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What to read next<\/div>\n
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Getting started with ImageMagick<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u2014Mohammed Saud<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n