What screenshot tools are available?

Question

I would like to post more to Ask Ubuntu. I have noticed here that many people use images in their answers. What software are people using?

Please limit one piece of software per answer

Answer 1

I am using Shutter .

If you don't find it, you can check the detailed installation instructions which will give you a PPA for it.

It's a really handy screen capture application with easy to use plug-ins to give a nice touch to your screenshot and as many other to easily share the files.

It offers in-house image editing and special effects (via plug-ins) to enhance the quality of your screenshot. You can access this options via the menu (1), or the toolbar (2).

The effects here are all done with Shutter (Plug-in Reflexion and Edit auto-increment shape).

And then to publish them, I just right click in Shutter and choose Export (3). Then I publish it via Ubuntu One. I go to the directory where I published the file, right click on it and select Copy Ubuntu One public URL.

Finally here when I comment, I click on img in the small tool bar and select From the web and paste the link that was copied in the previous step.

It's easy and fully integrated.

For those on 10.04, check that you have all shutter dependencies. As you might miss some of the plug-ins. For user on Ubuntu 10.10, this should be fixed.

Answer 2

Gnome Screenshot

I find the gnome screenshot tool to be the most effective of all - installed by default. My favorite is the use of shortcuts to quickly generate images. For example - Print Screen Which takes the entire desktop and Alt+Print Screen for the current focused windows.

Furthermore the interface is extremely simple and powerful for such a small tool.

Answer 3

I recommend using scrot as it is easy to use and, unlike import, it supports transparency.

To install:

sudo apt-get install scrot

To capture a screen area:

scrot -s /tmp/foo.png

Answer 4

I use the Gnome-Screenshoot, but for the sake of the reference and for all the old timers you can use xwd from the command line:

For a Screenshot of your entire screen:

xwd -root | convert xwd:- out.png

Answer 5

I use the Gimp. It has a nice tool which allows you to pause (to move it out of the way) and to select just a portion of the window. Usually I crop or edit a screenshot after taking it, so I want to be in Gimp anyway.

Answer 6

It more simpler with compiz plugin called screenshot.

Open the CompizConfig Setting Manager, search screenshot plugin, and activate it.

To use it, hold down the windows key (super key), click and drag the screen that you want to grab, release, and KAZAM, your screenshot on the desktop.

For video and tutorial go to this Shawn Powers' LinuxJournal.

Answer 7

Screencloud

There is a new kid in the block of screenshot utilities: screencloud

It's a pretty cool tool, available in the Ubuntu Software Center (at least on Ubuntu 12.04).

It has many nice features to easily share the screenshots via the internet, hence its name.

• Upload the screenshot to screencloud, the link is automatically pasted to your clipboard;
• you can use an ftp or sftp own server for this kind of sharing;
• it's multi-platform.

Answer 8

Gnome Screenshot does the job fine for me but there is also Imagemagick for CLI oriented folks:

import screenshot.png
import -window root screenshot.jpg

But, same as xwd, it will not work well with Compiz.

Answer 9

There is also Nanoshot - more simple than Shutter.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nanoshot/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nanoshot