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 sometimes, I want to make use of a delay - I need to take a screenshot with my mouse hovering on something so for example a tooltip pops up. I used to use kazam for that, but this now only takes transparent pngs :/
Any good screenshot utilities I should take a look at?
This might not be the smoothest solution, but in lieu of picking a specific tool for this type of task, I've tried recording a video of the screen and using that instead (taking a screenshot of the video at the time I want) - very much a hacky workaround, but the helpful thing on my end was that I didn't have to figure out the right number of seconds to plan for in the delay - I could just do whatever it was I needed to show, stop the recording and find the specific shot I needed.
I mention that only because the GNOME screenshot utility does have a screen recording feature built-in, so that could be an option?
If you're open to the KDE/Qt-based side of things, I use Kubuntu as my daily OS now and I really love the included screenshot utility, labeled 'ksnip' in the software store, which is available as an Ubuntu distribution package, Snap, or Flatpak.
Screen shots can be taken using the gnome-screenshot command, which by default puts your whole screen's image into your ~/Pictures directory.
For a 10 second delayed screen shot you can use something like:
gnome-screenshot -p -d 10
For more information see man gnome-screenshot.
Note: There seems to be a bug with the -p option and the mouse pointer is not included in the screen shot.
The command-line tool scrot is very versatile and can do this.
sudo apt install scrot
ALT+F2 scrot -d 5 ENTER
This will wait 5 seconds then take a screenshot. Scrot is very flexible, and can be controlled to take multiple shots, only an area of the display, or separate displays.
