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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Any chance Ubuntu could introduce a option where you can rename a screen shot before the screen shot is saved? Not sure when I can submit this feature [duplicate]
Its such a drag in trawling through your screen shots to find what you want, a better way would be to take the screen shot and just before you save the screen shot there is a option where the ...
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screenshot with a delay
Release: "Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS", XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11
Hello, I often take screenshots and usually the built in screenshot taker is fine - the one you get when you hit the PrtScn key.
But ...
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Touch friendly screenshot shortcut
Is there a way to get a shortcut icon to the side or top bar, that'll trigger the gnome screenshot utility, that is normally started with the print-key?
I'm using a Thinkpad Yoga convertible, so it's ...
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How to take a screenshot of login screen
I want to take screenshot of login screen in ubuntu 22.04.1.
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How to take screenshots on Ubuntu 22.10 with an Apple Magic keyboard?
How to take screenshots on Ubuntu 22.10 with an Apple Magic keyboard?
There is no print button on this keyboard.
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Screen recording has no sound (default ubuntu's tool)
When I switched to Ubuntu I started using the default snipping tool, which apparently it's called screenshot, although it looks really similar to gnome-screenshot, it looks a bit different. This is an ...
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Bringing Ubuntu 22.04 screenshot utility to Ubuntu 20.04
I'm on Ubuntu 20.04 on one laptop which I won't upgrade because of incompatibilities.
When I press Print Screen, I just get a picture of that as a file in the configured directory.
I saw on my other ...
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Is there a CLI for the default Wayland Screenshot tool? How is that tool called?
What is the standard screenshot tool of Wayland?
I configured it here:
But I am wondering if the same interactive screenshot tool can be launched by a terminal command?
(I am trying to solve: Connect ...
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How to stop auto-save of a screenshot? [duplicate]
I'm running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Desktop on my PC, how can I stop the auto-save of a screenshot?
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Can I disable notifications fo the default screenshot tool in Ubuntu 22.04LTS
I am currently taking lots of screenshots of online presentations.
I get a notification for them all.
I cannot find a toggle switch in Settings to turn off for ONLY this application.
Where do I turn ...
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Keyboard not responding as it should
I am using a Lenovo ThinkPad T440p and all of a sudden my keyboard is no longer responding as it should. The top row keys function well, so does the Ctrl key when marking several folders at once. The ...
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Connect Wayland screenshot tool to ksnip
We use ksnip as a company-standard cross platform screenshot annotation tool.
When switching to Wayland, I can take only screenshots via the portal, which is not very efficient.
Is it possible to ...
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Can't change directory of the saved screenshots
I have accidently deleted my Pictures folder and then I have restored it.But now the screenshots are being saved in /home/Screenshots instead of/home/Pictures/Screenshots.I have tried multiple methods....
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Flameshot does not work properly on Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
I freshly installed Ubuntu as my main operating system. I was using Flameshot frequently in Windows but I am having issues on Ubuntu.
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When I click on the launcher, now it ...
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How do I take screenshots in 22.04 without copying to the clipboard?
I just upgraded from 20.04 to 22.04 today, and, when I take a screenshot with PrtSc or Fn-Shift-S, it both saves the screenshot as a file and copies it to the clipboard, which is annoying when I have ...
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shutter is not working as a cron job for taking screenshot
My requirement is to capture the screen shot of the desktop's users, Using the following script, but It is not working. Regardless of which user logged in,this script is running as cron job in root ...
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How to reset screenshot permissions for an app on Ubuntu 22.10?
I've installed Ubuntu 22.10 and I use Upwork there.
For those who don't know - it makes screenshots while you work.
On 22.04 it asks permissions for each screenshot, however it seems in 22.10 it ...
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Upload images to imgur account from Spectacle
I use Spectacle
(Screenshot with Spectacle > Share > ImGur)
for screenshots, it has an option to upload to imgur but then its opened in my graphic editor.
How could i upload this to my account ...
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Screenshot utility
Seems like the default screenshot utility went through some features overhaul but have become a royal pain in the neck and significantly increased the clicks and typing required. Here are few details:
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Screenshot of a remote X server
I'm working on a project that must be able to take some screenshots of a remote X server. So far, I managed to get one screenshot of the local X server using imagemagick.
import -window root -display :...
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CTRL + ALT + F1 : is it possible to screen capture it?
I like using the pure text mode by CTRL+ALT+(F1:F6), but I need to take screenshots of it too.
Is there a way to do this?
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Picpick equivalent for ubuntu?
Does an equivalent for picpick exist for ubuntu? what I saw is ksnip. The problem with that is that it lacks EDITING capabilities. Sometimes I want to cut parts out of the screenshot.
Say, the middle ...
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why can't i dock the screenshot in 22.04 in favorites bar?
Why doesn't the screenshot app allow docking on the favorites bar?
Am I missing something?
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I press print screen and the screen resizes to full. How do I restore the screenshot functionality of print screen?
What it says on the tin. I haven't made any changes that I'm aware of, but when I'm in a browser window (Firefox or Chromium), print screen switches it into full screen mode. Is there a way to revert ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 Shutter disabled [duplicate]
After upgrading my Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04. I opened the Shutter application, and I noticed that the selection and window were disabled.
Disabled Select and Window
I need to use shutter because it is ...
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How to disable GNOME Screenshot UI, selection frame, necessity to click something to make a screenshot of an area in Ubuntu 22.04?
In Ubuntu 20.04 I could just press a shortcut, select an area and have that area in the buffer. Now it is gone and there is some annoying, irritating app.
How to delete it? If I delete it will ...
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How to grant permanent screenshot permissions for third-party apps in Ubuntu 22.04?
I use several apps that take screenshots like Upwork or Flameshot. But each time i should allow permission to take screenshot. How can I disable this feature or allow this permission forever? I use ...
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How to fix the problem shown in the picture with Ubuntu 22?
screenshotSince I upgraded to Ubuntu 22, a message appear while booting the OS
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Can’t install Ubuntu on VirtualBox [closed]
I have been trying to install Ubuntu on Oracle VM VirtualBox
configuration:
Base memory 2048MB
video memory 128
graphics controller: VMSVGA
but I keep getting this error:
Failed to start Snap Daemon....
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Ubuntu / Upwork - Manual Screenshot
I do plenty of work on Upwork and some are hourly. That means Upwork will automatically take screenshot of my work every 10 minutes. On other systems it does it so smoothly without needing to press ...
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Disable subpixel antialiasing while taking a screen shot
I am using an LCD display and have selected "Antialiasing : Subpixel (for LCD screens)" at gnome-tweaks → Fonts.
However, I want to temporarily disable antialiasing while taking screen shots....
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I do NOT want screenshots to be saved to file
When taking a screen shot in Ubuntu 22.04 using the PrtSc key, the image is always saved in the ~/Pictures/Screenshots/ directory. However, I generally almost always paste that image to another ...
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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 can I change "Print Scr" to capture all of the screen without asking question?
I moved to 22.04 last week. Up until this version, whenever I pressed "Print Scr" button it would capture the screenshot of the full desktop. Starting with 22.04 the "Print Scr" ...
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Pyautogui.screenshot() is returning black file.png on Ubuntu 22.04:. How to solve this?
I am testing the Pyautogui on a OS Ubuntu 22.04 in 2 different computers. Both ate presenting the same behavior.
When I use print(pt.screenshot('foo.png')) it is creating a black foo.png file.
I am ...
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Can't paste screenshot on ubuntu 20.04
I'm using ubunto 20.04. I try to take a screenshot and paste into a document in LibreOffice but it don't work. Although all images are saved.
If I use Ctrl + PrntScrn, it work. But I want more, like ...
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Screenshot tool extension not working in Ubuntu 22.04
Instead of the default Ubuntu 22.04 screenshot feature, I prefer the screenshot tool extension.
Systray image
But the extension is not working on Ubuntu 22.04, it's showing an error.
How can I ...
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Do not save screenshot as file (22.04)
For privacy reasons, it is important that screenshots are NOT saved as a file (only clipboard), but this is not possible anymore in the last upgrade.
Any way to get the old behavior back?
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I ...
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22.04 Prt Scr button not working
I have Ubuntu 22.04. When I press the Prt Scr (Print Screen) to take a screenshot nothing happens. On another computer I have with 20.04 this works. Do I have to do something to enable this in 22.04?
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How do I take a long screenshot in Linux?
I'm currently using Ubuntu 22.04. I want to take a screenshot of a long reddit comment to save it later in the note-taking app Obsidian. The default screenshot app in Ubuntu 22.04 doesn't offer that ...
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Screenshot not saved
When taking a screenshot in Ubuntu 22.04 the image is not saved.
I pressed "Print Screen" key, selected the area, pressed the round button.
The image is available on the clipboard but is not ...
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Screenshot saving
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In ubuntu 18.04 lts we have options like to save in pictures. If it's not required to save in pictures we have other option to set in keyboard screenshot. It will just ...
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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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