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There are two super nice features on my iPhone:

  • ability to take a screenshot with a hardware button combo;
  • ability to highlight it with a semitransparent brush;

It enables me to take screenshots and draw "attention areas" over them.

There is a nearly same feature in Windows with Snipping Tool (much less convenient though).

Is there a way in Ubuntu to:

  • run some tool via keyboard shortcut;
  • take a screenshot of some area on the screen;
  • highlight important area with a semitransparent brush.
Denis Kulagin
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Can I run some tool via keyboard shortcut?

Yes! Gnome has it's default shortcuts to do so, but so does KDE!

You can also customize Gnome or KDE to run a command when you hit the defined shortcut (see next response for said commands).

Can I take a screenshot of some area on the screen?

If you're using Gnome (the default desktop environment of Ubuntu), you can either press Shift + Prt Scrn or pass the -a option to gnome-screenshot to start it in "area selection mode".

There are other options that you can use, like -w to capture a window, or -c to put the screenshot in the clipboard.

More infos can be found in gnome-screenshot's manpage.

If you're not using Gnome, I can either recommend:

There is a ton of other tools listed in this question, but be warned that some of them (like Shutter) are completely outdated and unmaintained.

Personally, I use maim+xclip. Here the commands I use:

# Screenshot an area and store in clipboard
/bin/sh -c "maim -q -s | xclip -selection clipboard -t image/png"

Screenshot an area and store in file


/bin/sh -c "maim -q -s ~/Pictures/Screenshots/region_$(date +%s).png"

Can I highlight important area with a semitransparent brush?

In that case, flameshot is definitely what you're looking for :)

just do sudo apt-get install flameshot and change your shortcuts to use it as the default!

Taz8du29
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