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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How to make Ubuntu 22.04 save screenshot as png and not just place it on clipboard?
Ubuntu 22.04 64-bit LTS
I was surprised to see the new screenshot tool throw up a message that I could paste the screenshot into a file. Why should this be required? My old 18.04 setup could do it out ...
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Start new GNOME screenshot/screencast tool from CLI in Ubuntu 22.04?
I like the new screenshot tool in GNOME 42/ Ubuntu 22.04.
Although it does miss the possibility to record a window, and an option to record audio.
How do I start recording or take a screenshot from ...
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How do I launch gnome's print screen dialog without using the PrtScn key in recent versions of Gnome?
I use a laptop from linovo where they replaced the Menu key with PrtScn. I restored the menu key through XKB - which fortunately still works with Wayland Gnome - but lost the dedicated print-screen ...
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Recording screen interaction for UI playback
Before I resort to scripting my own, is there a tool that records screen interactions for playback?
I want to record where the mouse got clicked and on which menu, in order to automate a series of ...
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Changing the auto save directory for screen shots and screen cast in Ubuntu 22.04
I recently switched to Ubuntu 22.04 and I really like its default screenshot UI, but there seems to be no way to change the autosave directory. It saves the pictures to the $HOME/Pictures/Screenshots ...
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"Copy a screenshot area to clipboard" isn't available on Ubuntu 22.04 [duplicate]
I upgraded my system from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to 22.04 LTS recently. I want screenshots to be copied to the clipboard instead of saving them on my disk every time.
I got to know that there was an option &...
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Screenshot selection in 22.04
I am trying to configure the 22.04 (Gnome 42) keyboard shortcut to get the "old" functionality of taking screenshots of area selections and pasting them into clipboard (Ctrl + Shft + PrtScr +...
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Ubuntu 22.04 uninstall remove build-in screenshot tool
I use flameshot, and I don't want the built-in tool.
I disabled shortcuts in gnome settings, but with no effect
I tried to:
>>:~$ sudo apt remove gnome-screenshot
Reading package lists... Done
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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 to launch the new GNOME 42 screenshot tool from the Activities Overview after upgrading from Ubuntu 21.10 to 22.04?
It appears that when I upgraded my Ubuntu to 22.04 it carried the old screenshot utility with it, but I also have the new GNOME 42 screenshot way when I push my Print screen key on my keyboard.
So ...
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Capture screenshots with a fixed aspect ratio
Use case: I am making some demo videos for various software and need screenshots of the software. These should all have the same aspect ratio. Size can differ.
Question: Is there a screenshot tool for ...
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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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Is the feature [SHORTCUT-KEYS] 'Screenshot of an area to clipboard' missing in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS?
I noticed that the ability to 'Copy a screenshot an area to Clipboard (Shift+Ctrl+Print)' and previous screenshot functions [SHORTCUT-KEYS] are missing in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Is this an installation/...
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How to get back previous screenshot functionality on 22.04? [duplicate]
Older versions of Ubuntu allowed us to use Ctrl+Shift+Print screen to prompt the selection of an area and take the screenshot by copying it directly to clipboard.
So, how do we get this back?
I want ...
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How to change the default screenshot folder in GNOME 42?
I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04. I have to change my screenshot directory from /home/<usr_dir>/Pictures/Screenshots to another path. I could do this in Ubuntu 20.04, but I am not ...
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How to set xfce4-screenshooter by default to save screenshots as jpg not png?
xfce screenshooter normally saves screenshots as png files and modifying its extension for every file I want to save is an arduous work (considering the many screenshots I take on a daily basis).
I ...
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Upwork app keeps asking for permission to take screenshot
I am on Ubuntu 21.10
For my work I use Upwork desktop client to take screenshots.
Up until few days ago, it worked in the background without any issue.
Few days ago it started to ask permission each ...
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Copy window screenshot to clipboard not working
I have a screenshot issue on Ubuntu 20.04.
I can copy the box selection screenshot to the clipboard and the whole screen to the clipboard, but I cannot copy the window screenshot to the clipboard with ...
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How to disable mouse pointer/courser on selective screenshot using Ctrl + Shift + PrtSc hotkey
Many times when I take a selective screenshot using Ctrl + Shift + PrtSc, my mouse pointer in included, even though my mouse pointer is outside the selected area
I have a preinstalled "...
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Swapped screenshot shortcuts between file and clipboard not working as intended
So for my convenience, I swapped the shortcuts for saving screenshot file and saving to clipboard as follows because I rarely need the file:
The problem with this is that Print and Shift+Print now do ...
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After screen shot unable to click on any other window or taskbar
So I have the screen shot (copy screen shot of area to clipboard) set to a hotkey which has been working for a couple weeks but now all of a sudden whenever I take a screenshot I'm unable to click on ...
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How to install flameshot version 9 or above on 20.04 LTS?
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04.03 LTS focal fossa.
Recently, I heard of a screen capturing tool known as Flameshot. I installed it on my system using:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install flameshot
The ...
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Recently used files not working for screenshots created with ALT - PRINT
I create a screentshot with ALT - PRINT.
The file gets created in my ~/Bilder (German for Images) directory.
But if I open Gimp and then choose "open" then "Recently files", I don'...
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Screenshot not storing to a file in Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
I have been using using ubuntu's native snipping tool, which uses gnome-screenshot, but now I have observed that it is not saving pictures at all in picture directory when I hit Ctrl+Alt+PrtScr. It is ...
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A screen capturing tool that allows me to annonatate screenshots before saving them
I'm seeking for an excellent screen-capture programme that allows me to do the following:
Annotate screenshots
Can be run from the command line or via keybindings
I'll appreciate if it also offers ...
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Custom shortcut to "mate-screenshot -a"
I am using Ubuntu 20.04 with mate desktop. I also use an external keyboard - logitech keyboard k850 which unfortunately do not have the print-screen key :-(
In the native keyboard of my laptop the ...
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Using Ubuntu's built in screenshotting in a software?
I'm wondering if it's possible to access these functions:
Basically - My (C#) software triggers one of these screenshot functions and I want it to know where it's stored so I can use those pictures ...
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How to automatically send screenshot to someone on Telegram
I want to send screenshots automatically to someone as soon as I capture my screen. I can use telegram-cli to send the screenshot but I can't figure out that how can I chose the photo on my clipboard ...
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Shutter capture functions are greyed after 21.10 upgrade
I have a computer and a laptop, both were running 21.04.
But after I did the upgrade to release 21.10, I noticed Shutter Screenshot Tool is not functional anymore.
All capture commands grayed, as you ...
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Changing screenshot directory in Ubuntu 21.10
I am trying to change the default folder where the screenshots are saved. Currently, they are saved in /home/USERNAME/Pictures while I would like for this to be something like /home/USERNAME/...
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Prey on Ubuntu Ubuntu 20.04 takes a proper picture from the camera, but gives the same screenshot every time
I've recently downloaded PreyProject to my PC, and to my surprise, this is working perfectly, the software is successfully taking pictures from my PC camera, but the screenshot remains the same, every ...
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Fix WebKit font rendering in 20.04
I use cutycapt to make screenshots of web pages. When I switched from Kubuntu 16.04 to Kubuntu 20.04 I noticed that font rendering quality degraded significantly. I made several screenshots of the ...
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How to replace gnome-screenshot with flameshot on ubuntu budgie 20.04?
I tried some tutorials from the internet like "going to keyboard and creating a new shortcut for the print button"- and first that worked. I deleted the default shortcut for "print"...
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Take scrolling screenshot in Ubuntu
I want to take a scrolling screenshot of a page (not a web page, so browser extensions won't work, as in Screenshot Tools to Capture Scrolling Windows) that is too big for a normal screenshot.
In ...
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Shift PrintScreen sometimes takes 10 tries or more
Shift + Printscreen, trace a rectangle, nothing happens, no flash, no shutter-click
try again, Shift + Printscreen, trace a rectangle, nothing happens, no flash, no shutter-click
try again, Shift + ...
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Is there a tool to take long or scrolling screenshots of a window?
For reasons like academic requirements, I need a long screenshot of an entire scrollable view in a window in a singe image. On Windows, there are tools like ShareX that can do the same. How can I do ...
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Screenshot open select element crashes mouse interaction with ubuntu's UI
How to replicate:
Open a select element on a website
Try to take a screenshot using Ctrl + Shift + PrtSc
Try to use your mouse to do anything else except for the browser window
You cannot switch ...
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Taking a screenshot of a notification breaks the PrintScreen button
My problem is that taking a screenshot of a notification breaks the PrintScreen button.
Steps to reproduce:
Trigger one of those pop up notifications that appear at the top of the screen, e.g. by ...
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How can I insert an image into the clipboard using a terminal or bash script?
I'm making a custom script that uses ImageMagick to take screenshots because I deleted the original application and wanted to do a custom one.
#! /bin/sh.
cd magickScreenshots/
ls -v | cat -n | while ...
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How can I install xfce4-screenshooter newer than 1.9.7 in Xubuntu 18.04?
There is no screenshot on the clipboard when calling my screenshot-shortcut xfce4-screenshooter -rc or xfce4-screenshooter -mcw. I first asked a question on https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-...
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scrot command overwrites screenshot
I am using LXDE and created a PrtSc hotkey that uses scrot to create a screenshot, but it's overwriting the file, again and again. I want it to create a new file every time I hit PrtSc. However, when ...
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Intermittently, I get screenshots of 0 bytes after pressing Alt-PrintScreen
I use Alt-PrintScreen to capture screen-dumps of windows. This often works well.
But frequently, it will not, and the only thing that happens, is that a screen dump image is created in ~/Pictures/ ...
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How to make `gnome-screenshot` or `flameshot` work in crontab under Wayland?
I am using Ubuntu 21.04 under GNOME on Wayland. I want to take the screenshot every minute and save them to a designated folder. The simplest thing I can think of is using crontab which is available ...
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gnome-screenshot is not working and fails 90% of the time
When using keyboard shortcuts, or typing gnome-screenshot into terminal, it only works about 10% of the time. When using -a to select the area, the area selector cursor + appears, but after selecting ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 there is no ksnip in the list of possible applications [duplicate]
I want to open an image in ksnip that is installed as snap package but there is no such program in the list of possible options. What do I do?
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Shutter screenshot application is broken since upgrade to Ubuntu 21.04 Hirsute Hippo
Since upgrading to 21.04, the Shutter screenshot tool stopped working.
I installed it from the PPA http://ppa.launchpad.net/linuxuprising/shutter/ubuntu, it is at Version 0.95, Rev.1450
Let's say, I ...
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How to make system fast [duplicate]
@heynnema
I used to work on my laptop by opening chromium 3 tabs , firefox 1 tab(to run micrsoft teams) and two notepads. I have 2gb ram, dual core processor. Do above tasks makes my laptop slow? ...
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Desktop Background Is not Showing Up In 21.04 Screenshot
As you can see here, the background was made invisible on my desktop when I took a screen shot. I am not sure why. This happened after I updated to 21.04.
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How can I configure a shortcut for the 'Screenshot' default program in Ubuntu 20.04?
I remember this was a default in other distros like Xubuntu and Lubuntu. I know there's about 7 screenshot shortcuts in Settings, and I do use them, but I'd also like a "global" shortcut to ...
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How do I take screenshot of restricted area with delay while sending the screenshot to clipboard at the same time?
How do I take a screenshot of restricted area with delay while sending the screenshot to clipboard?
I would like to get the screenshot stored on the clipboard to be able to paste it afterwards.
gnome-...
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