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 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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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 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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"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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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 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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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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Ubuntu 18.04: Shift+PrintScreen doesn't offer a "save" window after a recent update
I had an Ubuntu update, and my "screenshot" option is not the same as it used to be.
I used to press SHIFT+PRINT SCREEN, and then a menu asking me where I want to save my images appeared (the specific ...
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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 take screenshot of complete webpages?
I have used shutter and screenshot applications for a long time for taking screenshots.But they can only take screenshots as big as the physical screen.
Sometimes I have to take an screenshot of an ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Screen snip (win+shift+s) alternative for Ubuntu
I'm new to Ubuntu and trying to set up my daily requirement tools and features. One of the features I use most is screen snip.
Here are some screenshots that show what I mean by "screen snip"...
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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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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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Keyboard shortcuts for screenshot on Ubuntu 20.04 running on a MacBook Pro
For frequent sharpshooters, like me, a short-cut on Mac Key boards is difficult.
There is a method of launching the "screenshot" app, for which we need to go to applications every time.
As ...
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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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Ubuntu Screenshot from Shortcut Doesn't Always Work
I've had this happen on multiple Ubuntu installations on different hardware now. When I take a screenshot of an area of the screen with Ctrl + PrnScr, about 50% of the time after drawing a rectangle ...
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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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Taking screenshot of a specific area from the command line
I am running Lubuntu desktop 12 and I am looking for a tool that can take screenshots of a certain area from the command line.
I have tried out Shutter. It works but, when I run the command it ...
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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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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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Can I take a screenshot and directly open it in Gimp?
Common use case for me and printscreen:
Hit printscreen and save .png
Open up Gimp
Find file I've saved
Edit file (crop and highlight regions)
It seems like the first three steps could be combined ...
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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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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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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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Error of taking Screenshot using Java Robot Class
I tried to take screenshot using java Robot class with NetBeans, as it is shown below
try {
Rectangle screen = new Rectangle(Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize());
BufferedImage capture =...
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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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Ubuntu 14.04 is making screenshots automatically without my interaction
From yesterday, working on my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS notebook I noticed that the system is making screenshots automatically without my interaction at different time intervals. "Save screenshot" window ...
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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 to copy area screenshot to clipboard on Kubuntu 18.04?
You can take a screenshot from a selected area in Kubuntu with Shift+PrtScr. The only problem is that this saves the image to ~/Pictures by default so you have to open ~/Pictures in your file manager ...
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Where do Shift PrintScreen screenshots go in Ubuntu 18?
In Ubuntu 16 I was able to press Shift PrintScreen and select area on the screen to screenshot it. In Ubuntu 18 when I press Shift PrintScreen the similar mouse icon appears and I also can select an ...
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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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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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Capturing step by step actions
Is there some tool to automated capture of step by step actions and screenshots during some task performing on computer with Ubuntu?
P.S. Just for illustration, here is one software to capture step by ...
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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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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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How to make system fast [duplicate]
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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 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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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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