Contents. Screenshot software Dedicated software. Deepin Screenshot — Quite easy-to-use screenshot tool. Features: global hotkey to trigger screenshot tool, take screenshot of a selected area, easy to add text and line drawings onto the screenshot. Python/Qt5 based. Escrotum — Screen capture using pygtk, inspired by scrot.
AUR. Flameshot — Qt5 based software for interactive screenshot taking. Select the desired area, draw with different tools and enjoy the customization capabilities.
— Screenshot tool for the GNOME desktop. grim — Grab images from a Wayland compositor. It currently works on 1.0 alpha. AUR. gscreenshot — Simple GTK+ screenshot utility with delays, selection, and copy-to-clipboard functionality.
AUR. imgur-screenshot — Take screenshot selection, upload to. + more cool things AUR. KShare — ShareX inspired cross platform utility written with Qt. AUR. Lightscreen — Simple tool to automate the tedious process of saving and cataloging screenshots, it operates as a hidden background process that is invoked with one (or multiple) hotkeys and then saves a screenshot file to disk according to the user's preferences.
AUR. LXQt Screenshot — Screenshot tool for LXQt.
Run with lximage-qt -screenshot. maim — Simple command line utility that takes screenshots. It's meant to replace scrot and performs better than scrot in many ways. MATE Screenshot — Screenshot tool for the MATE desktop. ScreenCloud — Take a screenshot of the entire screen or to select an area and then uploading the screenshot to +auth. Has plugins and system tray.
AUR. ScreenGrab — Cross-platform application designed to quickly take screenshots (Qt). AUR. — Simple command-line screenshot utility for X. Shutter — Rich screenshot and editing program. Supports.
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AUR. Spectacle — application for taking screenshots.
It is capable of capturing images of the whole desktop, a single window, a section of a window, a selected rectangular region or a freehand region. Part of. Xfce4 Screenshooter — Application and Xfce4 panel plugin to take screenshots about the entire screen, the active window or a selected region. Part of. xwd — X Window System image dumping utility xwd provided by Take a screenshot of the root window: $ xwd -root -out screenshot.xwd.
Note: The methods for taking shots of active windows with import can also be used with xwd. Scrot enables taking screenshots from the CLI and offers features such as a user-definable time delay. Unless instructed otherwise, it saves the file in the current working directory. $ scrot -t 20 -d 5 The above command saves a dated.png file, along with a thumbnail (20% of original), for Web posting. It provides a 5 second delay before capturing in this instance. You can also use standard date and time formatting when saving to a file.
E.g., $ scrot /screenshots/%Y-%m-%d-%T-screenshot.png saves the screenshot in a filename with the current year, month, date, hours, minutes, and seconds to a folder in your home directory called 'screenshots' See for more information. You can simply automate the file to uploaded like so. Note: In some window managers ( AUR, and possibly others) scrot -s does not work properly when running via window manager's keyboard shortcut, this can be worked around by prepending scrot invocation with a short pause sleep 0.2; scrot -s. Escrotum AUR screen capture using pygtk, inspired by scrot Created because scrot has glitches when selection mode is used with refreshing windows.
Because the command line interface its almost the same as scrot, can be used as a replacement of it. Maim is aimed to be an improved scrot. Takes screenshots of your desktop using for regions. It's meant to overcome shortcomings of scrot.
Flameshot allows you to add simple shapes to your screenshot as you are taking it (either fullscreen or a selected region). Desktop environment specific Spectacle If you use, you might want to use Spectacle. Spectacle is provided by the. Xfce Screenshooter If you use you can install and then add a keyboard binding: Xfce Menu Settings Keyboard Application Shortcuts If you want to skip the Screenshot prompt, type $ xfce4-screenshooter -h in terminal for the options. GNOME users can press Prnt Scr or Apps Accessories Take Screenshot. You may need to install. Cinnamon The default installation of does not provide a screenshot utility.
Installing will enable screenshots through the Menu Accessories Screenshot or by pressing Prnt Scr. Other desktop environments or window managers For other desktop environments such as or window managers such as and, one can add the above commands to the hotkey to take the screenshot. For example, $ import -window root /Pictures/$(date '+%Y%m%d-%H%M%S').png Adding the above command to the Prnt Scr key to Compiz allows to take the screenshot to the Pictures folder according to date and time. Notice that the rc.xml file in Openbox does not understand commas; so, in order to bind that command to the Prnt Scr key in Openbox, you need to add the following to the keyboard section of your rc.xml file: rc.xml
GIMP You also can take screenshots with ( File Create Screenshot.). Imlib2 provides a binary imlib2grab to take screenshots. To take a screenshot of the full screen, type: $ imlib2grab screenshot.png Note that actually uses imlib2. Screencast software See also. Screencast utilities allow you to create a video of your desktop or individual windows. Byzanz — Simple screencast tool that produces GIF animations.
Deepin Screen Recorder — Screen recorder application for Deepin desktop. FFcast — FFmpeg-based screencast tool written in Bash.
AUR. Green Recorder — Simple yet functional desktop recorder for Linux systems. AUR. Kazam — Screencasting program with design in mind. Handles multiscreen setups. AUR.
— Video recording and live streaming application. — Simple screencast tool that produces GIF, APNG, WebM or MP4 animations. RecordItNow — Plugin based desktop recorder for KDE. AUR.
— Easy to use utility that records your desktop into the ogg format with a CLI, GTK+ or Qt interface. (inactive development) CLI:, GTK+:, Qt: AUR. — Feature-rich screen recorder written in C/Qt5 that supports X11 and OpenGL. VokoScreen — Simple screencast GUI tool using FFmpeg. AUR. — Application used for recording a screencast or digital recording of an X Window System screen output with an audio narration.
AUR Weston In the Wayland compositor, screenshots can be taking by pressing Super+s, which are stored in Weston's current working directory. Screencasts are also supported; recording is started and stopped by pressing Super+r, which will create a file called capture.wcap in Weston's current working directory. The capture can be decoded to YUV format by running wcap-decode -yuv4mpeg2 capture.wcap; the output of this command can be written to a file or piped into FFmpeg for further processing. Reason: Add subsection about.
(Discuss in ) Capture with ANSI codes You can use the command, part of the package. Just run script and from that moment, all the output is going to be saved to the typescript file, including the ANSI codes. Once you are done, just run exit and the typescript would ready.
The resulting file can be converted to HTML using the AUR package, from the. To convert the typescript file to typescript.html, do the following: $ ansi2html -bg=dark typescript.html Actually, some commands can be piped directly to ansi2html: $ ls -color ansi2html -bg=dark output.html That does not work on every single case, so in those cases, using script is mandatory. Framebuffer Install a and use or to take a screenshot. Virtual console If you merely want to capture the text in the console and not an actual image, you can use setterm, which is part of the package.
The following command will dump the textual contents of virtual console 1 to a file screen.dump in the current directory: # setterm -dump 1 -file screen.dump Root permission is needed because the contents of /dev/vcs1 need to be read.