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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

Under Ubuntu there are many methods to take a screenshot, some are detailed here:

  • Use Print Screen: Using the keyboard's Print Screen button to load a screenshot into memory
  • Use gnome-screenshot: Using the Take Screenshot utility found under Accessories
  • Use ImageMagic: Using ImageMagic's import command
  • Use GIMP: Using GIMP's 'Screenshot' option
  • Use KSnapshot: Using KDE's KSnapshot application
  • Use scrot: Using the commandline screenshot utility scrot

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What is the terminal command to take a screenshot?

What command(s) can I use in the terminal that's equivalent to the PrtSc (Print Screen) button? I am running Ubuntu GNOME.
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How do I set a shortcut to screenshot a selected area?

In gnome's screen shot program, the quick keys PrtScn captures the entire screen and alt+PrtScn captures the active window. Is there a way to script or set up the third capture option of a selected area? Update: I don't seem to have this key already…
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How do I change the screenshot application to Flameshot?

I needed to highlight some text in my screenshots and I did not know how to do it with the default screenshot app. Flameshot is a solution. I installed it. How can I replace the PrtScr shortcut-key so that it launches Flameshot?
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How do I take a screenshot?

I'm not really sure since I'm still new to Linux distros in general
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What screenshot tools are available?

I have noticed that many people use images in their Ask Ubuntu answers. What software are people using?
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Which tool to crop a portion of the screen?

I can see how to use Gimp to crop part of an image in a image file, but I want to crop a portion of the screen. How do you do that?
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Snipping tool in ubuntu 16.04

I searched for any type of snipping tool in ubuntu. I found Shutter & installed it. But my Ubuntu launcher didn't show its icon. When I launch Shutter from terminal, my PC run slow & terminal showed hundreds of warnings. Is there any other snipping…
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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 + select/release: done). The problem is that $…
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How to make Shutter as the default screenshot tool?

I have shutter 0.90 on my Ubuntu 12.04 machine (installed via PPA). I would like to use it as my default screenshot tool with the Print shortcut key. But I can't find the option in Shutter. It should be in Preferences -> Keyboard, but I don't see…
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How do I disable the screenshot sound?

I am not holding a camera, I do not need to hear a shutter sound to know I pressed the Print Screen key. Other suggestions on the site encourage people to disable event sounds, but I use these. So it something I can hack out of the sound theme?
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gnome-screenshot copy to clipboard shortcut

I use MATE as desktop viewer. How can I add a shortcut for taking a screenshot of a part of the windows and copy it to the clipboard? Basically what with gnome the command control-shift-stamp.
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How do I create highlights on a screenshot?

In Chipaca's answer to Managing files and sync scenarios there's a screenshot with certain highlights. The highlights are the following: A row of a GUI list is highlighted by the other parts of the screenshot being darker. A check mark is…
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How to take screenshots of sections of the screen?

On Mac OS X, there is a handy key combo for taking a screenshot of any arbitrary rectangle section of the screen(Command-Shift-4). Is there something similar(maybe Compiz plugin) for Ubuntu/Gnome?
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Application for taking pretty screenshots (like OS X does)

I've been building a website for a guy who uses Mac OS X and occasionally he sends me screenshots of bugs. They come out looking like this: This is fairly typical of Mac screenshots. You get the window decorations, the shadow from the window and a…
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How can instantaneously extract text from a screen area using OCR tools?

In Ubuntu 12.10, if I type gnome-screenshot -a | tesseract output it returns: ** Message: Unable to use GNOME Shell's builtin screenshot interface, resorting to fallback X11. How can I select a text from the screen and convert it to text…
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