Quick screen shots in linux?
As a user coming from the windows world, one feature that I really hope linux has in it is the following that I found myself using quite often in windows:
When I want to capture the screen to a file in windows I can just hit the keys shift+PrintScreen (to copy the current window to the clipboard) or Ctrl+PrintScreen (to capture the entire display to the clipboard). I then merely open up MS Paint, and hit Edit|Paste and am able to save the window/screen shot to a jpg file. Is there a similar way to do such a thing in linux? I know I'm not mentioning a distro, and this might vary from one to another, but I haven't yet decided on a distro to stick with for now. (So many choices!) Many TIA! |
It's more of a matter of DE/WM as to how this can be done.
KDE certainly has a hot-key feature (that may not be enabled by default), and with fluxbox I use ImageMagicks import (bound to two different hot-keys to achieve the respective result) - I don't copy to clipboard, though, I save to a time-stamped file directly. Cheers, Tink |
As far as I am aware, KDE uses the same keys. At least, the last time I needed a screenshot I didn't use any keys I hadn't used before. Not sure about Gnome though.
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Gnome-screenshot for gnome/Xfce
Ksnapshot for KDE |
I use fluxbox, which has hotkeys (so like whats already been mentioned, you'd need to find out how your desktop environment/window manager handles that).
so I have a hotkey calling the ImageMagick program with this commandline: Code:
import screenshot.png && display -resize 75% screenshot.png |
Wow! Again, so many choices! Many thanks to all who replied. I really appreciate you taking the time. I'm getting there. Slowly, but surely, but I am getting there.
Thanks all once again! Rick |
I also use Fluxbox, and I once found a script that makes taking screenshots pretty easy. I never saw any need to replace it.
Code:
#!/bin/bash screenshot win screenshot area screenshot scr All screenshots taken are then saved to /home/<user>/screenshots Hope this helps :) Cotun |
Try the "scrot" command-line program.
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hi welcome to LQ in ubuntu applications/accessories/take screenshot
alternative /system/preferences/keyboard shortcuts (its set to print screen but you can apply your own shortcut easily good luck |
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