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I'm using a Chromebook and this keyboard doesn't have a "Print" button, I'm just confused as to what I would use instead of that for taking a screenshot. Thanks!

j-money
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John Morozov
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The default command to take screenshot is actually gnome-screenshot, there's several command-line flags that you can provide in addition to that, such as gnome-screenshot -w for taking a window screenshot. Knowing this you can assign a custom keyboard shortcut via System Settings -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts. I would suggest using AltShiftP since I don't recall any other application using it, however you are free to choose among the myriad of other possible combinations.

See also: https://askubuntu.com/a/542185/295286

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
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There are plenty of terminal apps that will take screenshots without the use of any keyboard function (aside from having a keyboard as input)

My personal favorite is screenfetch as it will print out computer info as well

Examples:

usage: screenfetch -s

output: Web-Browser Terminal

See also: https://github.com/KittyKatt/screenFetch

you can install it by sudo apt-get install screenfetch scrot

j-money
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  • screenfetch looks quite interesting. Learned something new, +1 – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Mar 27 '19 at 01:59
  • @SergiyKolodyazhnyy neofetch claims to be an improvement over screenfetch. – DK Bose Mar 27 '19 at 02:16
  • @DKBose https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/wiki/Neofetch-vs-Screenfetch :'D I'll skim through the code now, but I'm curious if you know of any of their claims of "improvements" (not to say there aren't any!) – j-money Mar 27 '19 at 02:24
  • @j-money I mostly prefer to use inxi but I do remember reading the sort of claims I mentioned. I looked at your link which now has WIP. There are some sites that store archived versions of web pages (Back in Time, or something like that?) but it's a bit unusual to pull a page the way it's happened. – DK Bose Mar 27 '19 at 02:34
  • https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/wiki/Neofetch-vs-Screenfetch/f07119fb9854f5b2c4e40574aebcb41fa4e14806 has an old version and previous revisions are here: https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/wiki/Neofetch-vs-Screenfetch/_history But as I said, I don't track neofetch or screenfetch enough to know what's really going on there. – DK Bose Mar 27 '19 at 02:40