Questions tagged [screenshot]
Screenshot is an image taken by the computer to record the visible items displayed on the monitor, television, or another visual output device. Usually this is a digital image taken by the host operating system or software running on the computer
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What is the terminal command to take a screenshot?
What command(s) can I use in the terminal that's equivalent to the PrtSc (Print Screen) button?
I am running Ubuntu GNOME.
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How do I set a shortcut to screenshot a selected area?
In gnome's screen shot program, the quick keys PrtScn captures the entire screen and alt+PrtScn captures the active window. Is there a way to script or set up the third capture option of a selected ...
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How to change screenshot application to Flameshot on Ubuntu 18.04?
I needed to highlight some text in my screenshots and I did not know how to do it with the default screenshot app.
Flameshot is a solution. I installed it.
How can I replace the PrtScr shortcut-key so ...
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How do I take a screenshot?
I'm not really sure since I'm still new to Linux distros in general
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What screenshot tools are available?
I have noticed that many people use images in their Ask Ubuntu answers. What software are people using?
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Which tool to crop a portion of the screen?
I can see how to use Gimp to crop part of an image in a image file, but I want to crop a portion of the screen. How do you do that?
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Snipping tool in ubuntu 16.04 [duplicate]
I searched for any type of snipping tool in ubuntu. I found Shutter & installed it. But my Ubuntu launcher didn't show its icon.
When I launch Shutter from terminal, my PC run slow & ...
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Screenshot selection in 22.04
I am trying to configure the 22.04 (Gnome 42) keyboard shortcut to get the "old" functionality of taking screenshots of area selections and pasting them into clipboard (Ctrl + Shft + PrtScr +...
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How to make Shutter as the default screenshot tool?
I have shutter 0.90 on my Ubuntu 12.04 machine (installed via PPA). I would like to use it as my default screenshot tool with the Print shortcut key. But I can't find the option in Shutter. It should ...
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gnome-screenshot copy to clipboard shortcut
I use MATE as desktop viewer. How can I add a shortcut for taking a screenshot of a part of the windows and copy it to the clipboard? Basically what with gnome the command control-shift-stamp.
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How do I disable the screenshot sound?
I am not holding a camera, I do not need to hear a shutter sound to know I pressed the Print Screen key.
Other suggestions on the site encourage people to disable event sounds, but I use these.
So it ...
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How to take screenshots of sections of the screen?
On Mac OS X, there is a handy key combo for taking a screenshot of any arbitrary rectangle section of the screen(Command-Shift-4).
Is there something similar(maybe Compiz plugin) for Ubuntu/Gnome?
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How do I create highlights on a screenshot?
In Chipaca's answer to Managing files and sync scenarios there's a screenshot with certain highlights. The highlights are the following:
A row of a GUI list is highlighted by the other parts of the ...
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Application for taking pretty screenshots (like OS X does)
I've been building a website for a guy who uses Mac OS X and occasionally he sends me screenshots of bugs. They come out looking like this:
This is fairly typical of Mac screenshots. You get the ...
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How can instantaneously extract text from a screen area using OCR tools?
In Ubuntu 12.10, if I type
gnome-screenshot -a | tesseract output
it returns:
** Message: Unable to use GNOME Shell's builtin screenshot interface, resorting to fallback X11.
How can I select a ...
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How can i change the default name for the screenshots made by gnome-screenshot?
Gnome-screenshot 3.1.2 uses filenames like this one
Screenshot at 2011-07-31 12:13:04.png
making it rather easy to see when it was taken.
The problem is that it uses the colon ( : ) character - ...
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How to take a screenshot with the actual pointer icon?
Normal keyboard shortcuts for screenshots like Ctrl+Print_Screen do not include the pointer in the image at all.
Special applications like Take Screenshot may offer an effect option to include the ...
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How do I take screenshots with a delay?
While pressing Prnt Scrn mostly takes a screenshot there are times it doesn't do as intended. The most common case is when a dropdown menu is active.
How do I take such screenshots? I want a solution ...
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Screenshot Tools to Capture Scrolling Windows
As the title of the Question states, I want to know what are the tools available for Ubuntu which would allow me to take screenshots of "Scrolling Windows" ie; tall webpages, tall nautilus window ...
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How can I print-screen just one window and not my entire desktop?
I could swear I've always been able to do Alt+Print Screen to get 'just that window' but right now I am getting my entire desktop.
Any idea why this would be or what I can do to get my ability to do ...
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ScreenShot/PrintScreen doesn't work with menus dropped down!
Whenever I try to take a screen-shot (in my Ubuntu 12.04 box ) with the global menu, context menu for any window/file, it doesn't work. I don't seem to be able to take snapshots with menu dropped down....
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How can I take a screenshot of the login screen?
How can I take a screenshot of the login screen?
I do not want to recreate my Ubuntu installation in a virtual machine.
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Ubuntu: screenshot and edit tools
I am looking for a tool that can be used to screenshot and edit. I found this application called shutter I have installed it, but it does not edit. I have tried to fix the problem with no success.
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Where is the save directory for screenshot?
I was wondering what is the default saving directory for Accessories > Take Screenshot?
I just took a screenshot and I am looking for where it is saved.
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How to take partial screen shots?
When I'm pressing the PrtScn ("Print Screen") button, it's taking a screenshot of the whole screen. But many times I want only some part of the screen as a screenshot.
How to do that?
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How to capture a drop-down menu?
I need to capture a drop-down menu of a program. If I open the menu and then press PrntScr (print screen button), it first closes the menu and then captures the screen. I tried Ctrl+PrntScr, Shift+...
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How do I make my screenshot ask me what to do next every time?
I take screenshots a lot. I usually take screenshot of an area, I then recheck if I have the desired area and then copy it to clipboard.
I want to change this behaviour so that immediately upon ...
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Quality with the screenshot tool isn't good
Whenever I take screenshots using the default screenshot tool on my Ubuntu 11.10 (unity), the image does not look as good as the screen itself (the quality is deteriorated). So I would like to take ...
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What's a screenshot application which will auto-upload to imgur?
Is there an equivalent to Imgur on Ubuntu?
I am looking for an application that has the simple workflow of:
Taking a screenshot.
Having it auto-upload in the click of a button.
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How to change the keyboard shortcut to take screenshots with Shutter?
I use Shutter for screenshots. When I press Print Screen or Shift + Ctrl + Z, a popup appears that a screenshot is going to be made in 2 seconds. After that Shutter opens, and I can then crop the ...
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Many screenshots within a limited time saved directly, without asking for a filename
I know how to take a screenshot, but I want to take many screenshots within a limited time (taking screenshots of a single execution of a program which I can not pause).
Is there a program that takes ...
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Is it possible to change language for user interface temporarily?
I use Ubuntu 12.04 with German UI. However, when I ask questions here or anywhere else on Stack Exchange, and I am adding screenshots, I would prefer having them in English.
Thus, my question is:
How ...
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How can I include the cursor in the screenshots created when PrtScr is pressed?
I want to make it so that when I press the print screen key on my keyboard, it actually includes the cursor. I know that it is calling gnome-screenshot, but I can't find any way to change the ...
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Why are some of my screen-recording/capturing/sharing applications (or app features) not working in Ubuntu 17.10 (and later releases)?
After upgrading to Ubuntu 17.10 I noticed some of my screencasting applications are not working, for example screencasting tools like SimpleScreenRecorder and vokoscreen. (link)
Also I noticed ...
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How to take a screenshot on Ubuntu Touch
I have flashed Ubuntu Touch on my Motorola Razr GSM (umts_spyder), and would like to take screenshots, but I don't know how. Is there a way to do that?
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Disable gnome-screenshot's 'camera flash' animation
How can I disable the gnome-screenshot 'camera flash' animation (fade from black)? I've already disabled the camera shutter sound with sudo mv /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/camera-shutter.oga ...
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Gnome Screenshot Copy Clipboard not working on Ubuntu 20.04
I've just upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04 from 18.04. Gnome screenshot command does not work anymore. The command does not copy the screenshot to the clipboard.
gnome-screenshot -a -c
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How to take a screenshot every n second?
What software can I use to take screenshots with a set interval? I'd like to take screenshots every 2 second or so. Command-line and GUI are both ok.
I'd prefer software that can also resize and ...
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Taking screenshots in Lubuntu (11.10) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Print Screen key doesn't work if a drop-down menu is active
As you know, by pushing PrintScreen button on the keyboard, a screen-shot of desktop will be saved on your home ...
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screencast not working ubuntu 22.04
taking a screenshot or partial screenshot works fine, but when i try to record and click on the record button, it prompts the timer on the top bar and instantly disappears and, eventually, recording ...
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How can I use firefox to take full page screenshots from command line? [duplicate]
I need to take a screenshot of a whole web page.
I have seen How can I take a full page screenshot of a webpage from the command line? where many ways to take a screenshot are proposed but I need to ...
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How can I take a screenshot from a window, with customizable margins
I need a tool that will do the following: selecting a window, will make a screenshot of that window with a x padding, like in the following image:
So, in most of the cases x will be equal with y, but ...
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From Screenshot to "edit Image"
If I take a screenshot, often the next action is to paint on it. Sometimes I paint a circle around something, sometimes I blank parts to anonymize them.
Below is an example of the window after the ...
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22.04 screenshots... How to Draw and edit?
I cannot draw arrows and text on top of my screenshots in Ubuntu 22.04 . I was able to do this in flameshot .
I also tried Shutter which is also not enabling me to draw..
How to draw on top of ...
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How to run a shell script when a new USB storage device is detected?
I want a script that dumps the log and starts logging on it as soon as a usb mass storage is plugged (with the file 'OKdump' on it).And if anything abnormal(Like a error that is visually present) is ...
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How to take screenshot of an X11 based GUI from a text terminal (such as tty1)?
I tried using DISPLAY=:0 import -window root "$HOME/Pictures/screenshot.png" (import is part of the ImageMagick suite), but that just displays a black screen.
I want to do this as I wanted to ...
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How can I take a screenshot of a whole web page? [duplicate]
I have been testing various Firefox extension for screenshot grabbing, but none of them suited my needs.
Then I have found Shutter (0.86.3), and it is really nice. I use exporting to imageshack and ...
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How to take screenshot on Ubuntu-guest (Virtualbox)
I am running Ubuntu 10.10 amd64 in a Virtualbox on windows host. whenever i try to take a screenshot by pressing the print screen or by launching the gnome-screenshot option the screenshot appears ...
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How to take screenshot of indicator menus?
If I hover over to the setting menu or any of the indicator menus, Prnt Scrnbutton won't work.
If I want to take the snapshot of these menus, how do I do that?
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Taking screenshots with Mac keyboard
I have been using Ubuntu 10.04 on my HP notebook for more than two years, and I have just installed Ubuntu 12.04 on Mac Pro.
The problem of taking screenshots on a Mac is that there is no PrintScreen ...
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