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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Screenshot with "select the area to grab" option - how to "unselect" grabbed area? [closed]
I'm trying to save as a picture a screenshot with "select the area to grab" option. But the selected area is marked with different color - as selected area - which is visible on the resulting image. ...
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How do I keep Screenshot open to take multiple screenshots?
I wish to take multiple screenshots to put into a presentation, but the Screenshot application closes after each area selection screenshot. How do I take multiple screenshots without the application ...
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How to uninstall the default screenshot app?
I installed Lightshot using Wine and PlayonLinux, and it works really well. But, I think the default screenshot app is interfering with Lightshot, with the actual prtscn button.
I was wondering if ...
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How do I do a screenshot of the desktop cube?
Is there a way to do a screenshot of the rotating cube? I can't get it to work while I am rotating the cube.
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Taking screenshots of all (or specific) virtual desktops/workspaces (or: windows beyond/larger than current desktop)?
I often need to take screenshots of windows that are larger than the currently shown desktop. I'm on Ubuntu 11.04, gnome-about says Version: 2.32.1; compiz --version says Compiz 0.9.4.0 -- and I have ...
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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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Is there a way to take a screenshot of your log-in screen on startup?
I have a bug on my auto-log-in which is only shown When I log in the first time. There for I need a way to take a screenshot of my log-in screen when I start up.
I know about this question, but the ...
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How to define a shortcut key to grab part of the screen?
I've been trying to create a short-cut key for grabbing part of the screen.
If I run the command /usr/bin/gnome-screenshot --area the program I want runs and does what I want. When I createa a custom ...
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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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Screenshot problem Ubuntu 16.04
When I want to take a screenshot with gnome-screenshot of my browser (chromium), pdf-viewer (Document Viewer), nautilus or even texmaker it takes a screenshot of the desktop or the window behind the ...
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Unable to set a shortcut to grab screenshot area
I currently have Ubuntu 13.10. At some point the default shortcuts Shift+Prn and Ctrl+Shift+Prn stopped working.
Simply pressing Prn (captures the entire screen) works, pressing Alt+Prn to capture ...
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Setup normal screeshot procedure?
If I press PrintScreen button, a Spectacle application starts and allows me to take screenshot with following key and mouse strokes.
Can I make it proceed immediately, without additional actions?
If ...
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How can I include the mouse pointer using a command-line screenshot utility?
I'd like to do this without giving feedback to the user as well, because a program I'm making will use it many times.
What didn't work:
scrot (No mouse pointer)
import -window root (No mouse pointer)...
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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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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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Taking screenshots during installation of Ubuntu
I am going to install Ubuntu Server. On numerous websites, I have observed screenshots of the install process. If I would like to take a screenshot of the install process, how can I do it?
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How to take a screenshot of a section of the screen on Xubuntu 18.04?
How can I take a screenshot of a selected region of my screen?
I already tried PrtScr but it captures only fullscreen screenshots.
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How do I capture a screenshot of a window, and all the windows on top of it?
I'm using screenshots as regression tests for GUI software. Before deploying each new version, a series of automatic tasks is run against the old and the new version, screenshots are generated after ...
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scrot (screenshot) cron job not executing
I'm trying to execute a cron job with Scrot (screenshot utility) but it won't work.
At first I thought it was a directory problem. I wrote my.png by itself at first, which could have been dropping ...
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How do I replace xfce4-screenshooter in Xubuntu?
When I press Prnt Scrn in Xubuntu, xfce4-screenshooter starts.
I also installed shutter which has many more options to customize and to compress the screenshot into a smaller, better emailable size (...
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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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How can I easily scale a screenshot, taken from a high-DPI screen?
Since I switched to a High DPI display, the screenshots I post are awkwardly big, example below.
Is there a way to quickly make them look normal?
Preferably something faster than firing up GIMP.
In ...
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Ubuntu taking Random Screenshots?
This probably sounds crazy, but at random times, Ubuntu 11.10 takes a ton of screenshots at the same time, and then more after that. You hear the clicking sound repeatedly and the dialogue pops up ...
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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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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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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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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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How to disable screenshot sharing confirmation on Ubuntu 22.04
After upgrading from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04 now each time another application try to get a screenshot the system pops up a message asking me to confirm sharing that screenshot. It leads to some ...
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How to modify default printscreen behaviour?
The Prnt Scrn button currently takes a screenshot and saves it in ~/Pictures.
How can I modify the behaviour I want for the Prnt Scrn button?
Use case: I want to take a screenshot and go to GIMP and ...
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Quicker alternative to gnome-screenshot? (no animation!, quick!, no frills)
I want to take screenshots in Ubuntu.
This is normally no big problem with the standard gnome-screenshot program is working good.
But just now I ran into trouble because I need to take a screenshot ...
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Do you have to deactivate or deinstall gnome-screenshot when using shutter?
In relation to this question: What screenshot tools are available?
Is it advisable to deinstall or deactivate gnome-screenshot when installing and using shutter? Or doesn't it make any difference (e....
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Screenshot tool with integrated optipng or pngcrush
This is a followup question of
how do I get maximal compressed screenshots?
Is there a screenshot tool that has optipng or pngcrush already included to minimize the filesizes of the png ...
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Take a screenshot of webpage at intervals?
I need a way to refresh a certain webpage and have a screenshot taken approximately every 5 minutes. I'm new with Ubuntu, but willing to use terminal, etc. If steps are given, I've used it before, I ...
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How to enable globe in Shutter in Ubuntu 18.04?
I want enable globe in Shutter for taking screenshots of whole web pages.
For enabling globe I need install gnome-web-photo package. I use this command
$ sudo apt-get install gnome-web-photo
I get ...
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Can't Capture Screenshots Of Webpages Using Firefox's CLI After Upgrade To Firefox 54.0
I've been using the Firefox Command Line Interface (Shift + F2) to take fullpage screenshots in Firefox for several months now.
Below is the syntax I use to capture screenshots via Firefox's CLI:
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Looking for a bitmap editor for screenshots
I've started using scrot for screenshots; this works beautifully, but occasionally I need to edit screenshots to
blur personal information
add text
add arrows
add a box around something
I'm looking ...
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how do I get maximal compressed screenshots?
I'd like to compress my screenshots as much as possible before I send them via email. The best compression ratio I only got with some work on each screenshot:
first I took the screenshot with shutter:...
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Read QR and other bar codes from screen
I'm looking for a simple way to read bar codes, data matrix and QR codes.
The scenario: I have it on my PC screen (website, photo, PDF, webcam), want the contained text
I'm on KDE, Kubuntu Precise, ...
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How can I take a full page screenshot of a webpage from the command line?
I have installed CutyCapt on my Linode VPS and using it to generate screenshots by following command.
xvfb-run --server-args="-screen 0, 1024x768x24" ./CutyCapt --url=http://www.google.com --out=...
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Gnome-Screenshot error in Ubuntu GNOME 13.10
I recently installed Ubuntu GNOME 13.10 (it came with GNOME 3.8, but I replaced it by GNOME 3.10) and after a few problems, the only one I couldn't solve was the screenshot problem.
When I press the ...
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How to take screenshot in a TTY terminal [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can I take a screenshot of a virtual console?
I sometimes go to TTY1 to do some fixing when an app freezes or the system is slow (rare cases) but in some cases I need to take ...
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Screenshot tools capture colors incorrectly
I've taken a screenshot using both Ubuntu's built-in screenshot utility and the Shutter utility, and both of them are getting the colors wrong. I've taken a screenshot of the original and the ...
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Screenshot (CTRL + SHIFT + PrtScn) not in clipboard
CTRL + SHIFT + PrtScn has suddenly stopped working.
I'm still able to select an area, but the image is never copied to the clipboard.
I'm running Ubuntu 14.04.
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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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Taking screenshots is suddenly very slow
Lately, I have noticed that mate-screenshot has become very slow. I keep up with the 20.04 LTS updates, and I don't know what packages were updated recently that caused this.
Interestingly, the ...
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How to take a screenshot with colors as they appear in night mode
I often find myself in situations where some images have nicer looking colors in the night-mode. I often want to screenshot them. Unfortunately, what I get is the original image.
Is there any way to ...
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Screen-shot is changing colours
I have tried to take Screen-shot of webpage in Browser by many application available for Ubuntu 16.04. (e.g. kazam, PrtsS key,Alt+PrtSc, Shift+PrtSc,Screeshot).
I have also tried Take a Screenshot ...
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Capture screenshot of login screen in Ubuntu 17.10
How can I capture a screenshot of the login screen (GDM) in Ubuntu 17.10?
Previous answers to questions such as How can I take a screenshot of the login screen? do not apply to Ubuntu 17.10 because ...
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What snapshot software do you recommend? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What screenshot tools are available?
Hi,
is there a snapshot software for Ubuntu? Something like SnagIt?
The idea is many times I have to take the snapshot and edit the ...
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Can we directly upload and share screenshots?
If I want to share a screenshot, I currently need to either save the screenshot and then navigate to the file in order to send it or upload it to a image host/server.
Does anyone know how I can ...