How do I take a screenshot?

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I'm not really sure since I'm still new to Linux distros in general

Maybe this could help you: How do I take a screenshot with dimensions? & How to take a screenshot of a whole desktop with app menu selection? & How do I take screenshots with a delay? & How can I take a screenshot of the login screen? & How to take a screenshot every n second? & Can I take a screenshot of a virtual console? Full list: http://paste.ubuntu.com/6121610/ — Lucio, Sep 17 '13 at 23:08
Agreed - this may well be a duplicate of something, but it's not a duplicate of that question. — thomasrutter, Sep 19 '13 at 05:15

Braiam · Answer 1 · 2016-07-11T18:57:46.973

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Just press the Print Screen key.

You may find the Pictures in your Home Picture folder, this will normally work with any operative system.

edited Jul 11 '16 at 18:57

answered Sep 17 '13 at 23:24

Braiam

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I tried that but nothing happened. What am I doing wrong? – fukanchik Sep 06 '16 at 00:03
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You need to go to ~/Pictures/ using the Files program and look for a file named Screenshot from 2020-02-14 12-09-09.png – WhereIsTheManual Feb 15 '20 at 16:48
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What about for Mac's? All of these suggestions assume a Print or Prnt Scrn key. – Prof Huster Feb 20 '20 at 14:21
@fukanchik in Lubuntu, the image is saved in /home/yourusername as something like 2020-03-29-122645_1366x768_scrot.png – rdtsc Mar 29 '20 at 18:01
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What if you do not have a Print Screen button? Many keyboards these days omit those – user5359531 Mar 23 '21 at 15:17
The button may also be called "stamp". – Rexcirus Jan 11 '22 at 16:58
that will only do the whole screen – Philip Rego Mar 13 '22 at 21:47
@PhilipRego there's anything in the question that asks for a region or window? – Braiam Mar 14 '22 at 13:21
@Braiam no. Does the question ask for the whole window? – Philip Rego Mar 14 '22 at 16:42
@PhilipRego no, it asks for a screenshot, and my answer provides exactly that. A whole-"screen" shot. – Braiam Mar 14 '22 at 22:43

score 81 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 18 '22 at 17:03

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Shift + Prnt Scrn allows you to print a selection of the screen.

Print Screen alone will take a screenshot.

Only GNOME 2.x: Hold Super (The Windows Icon on your keyboard) to display all key shortcuts. Here on GNOME Shell.

edited Jul 18 '22 at 17:03

Pablo Bianchi

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answered Aug 11 '14 at 17:48

Roman

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Oh I didn't know about the windows key! – khatchad Mar 25 '15 at 14:43
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holding the windows key doesn't work for me (Ubuntu 20.04) – stochastic Mar 08 '21 at 15:33
I think holding SUPER/WIN to display shortcuts is actually Unity desktop feature, not MATE/Gnome 2 or Gnome 3. – Mikko Rantalainen Jul 16 '21 at 06:30
Doesn't work on Ubuntu 22.04 – AliN11 May 10 '22 at 07:14

score 39 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 18 '22 at 17:01

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View the available short-cuts under

On GNOME Shell (17.10+): Settings -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> Screenshots

or on Unity (before 17.10): Settings -> Devices -> Keyboard

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If you have less options view Create custom short-cuts

If you would like to use a tool you may want to use Gimp, Shutter, etc. View more in This thread

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Pablo Bianchi

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As of Ubunutu 14.04 "screenshot of window" only takes the part in the current workspace. For example if your window spans more than one visible workspace, because it is longer or wider, then only the picture is cropped to the current workspace. – Tino Feb 23 '16 at 17:51
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thanks also worked for me, new ubuntu upgrade just changed a bit the layout: https://imgur.com/a/KWt19 – CommonSenseCode Nov 02 '17 at 09:35
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Great tip! FYI, on Ubuntu 18.04 (and maybe earlier, too) this is Settings -> Devices -> Keyboard – matb Jul 12 '18 at 01:42

score 19 · Answer 4 · edited Sep 17 '13 at 23:04

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Open Dash (upper icon on the launcher) and search screenshot.

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Lucio

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Thanks. I'm running Linux in a VM under OSX and my keyboard does not have a Prt Scr key.. – Anders Hansson Feb 26 '14 at 10:06

score 18 · Answer 5 · edited Jan 14 '22 at 02:41

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Update: Shutter got removed from Debian/*Ubuntu repos because it uses deprecated Perl modules.

You can use "shutter" for taking a snapshot of a selected area. You need to do

sudo apt-get install shutter

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Pablo Bianchi

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answered Aug 22 '14 at 04:54

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I've moved to this due to gnome-screenshot adding an orange tint to the background of selections on Ubuntu 16.04 – M1ke Jan 13 '17 at 10:01
For a selected area in Ubuntu: ctrl+shift+print. No need to install extra stuff anymore – Guilherme Taffarel Bergamin Feb 20 '22 at 19:56
It will be back in Debian Bookworm and Ubuntu Jammy. – Photon Mar 03 '22 at 12:55

score 9 · Answer 6 · answered Jul 10 '20 at 11:59

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Taking it and saving it to ~/Pictures

Print - Take a screenshot
Alt + Print - Take a screenshot of a window
Shift + Print - Take a screenshot of an area

Taking it and copying it to clipboard

_{(just add Ctrl to the shortkeys above)}

Ctrl + Print - Take a screenshot
Ctrl + Alt + Print - Take a screenshot of a window
Ctrl + Shift + Print - Take a screenshot of an area

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Thanks for that. I'm going to swap those shortcuts right now. I don't want it saving the screenshots in files unless I tell it to do so – Guilherme Taffarel Bergamin Feb 20 '22 at 19:49

score 7 · Answer 7 · edited Feb 24 '15 at 23:28

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Use GIMP. Launch GIMP and go to “File”->”Create”->”Screenshot”. Choose to capture a single window (with/without window border), the entire screen (with/without mouse pointer) or a specific region of the screen. Click on the “Snap” button to start capturing.

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Seth

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answered Dec 01 '14 at 06:11

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This is rather heavyweight for the task.. – Quelklef Jul 02 '18 at 12:36

score 5 · Answer 8 · answered May 12 '18 at 14:36

You can refer this from Ubuntu documentation on taking screenshots:

Take a screenshot

Open Screenshot from the Activities overview.
In the Screenshot window, select whether to grab the whole screen, the current window, or an area of the screen. Set a delay if you need to select a window or otherwise set up your desktop for the screenshot. Then choose any effects you want.
Click Take Screenshot.
If you selected Select area to grab, the pointer changes into a crosshair. Click and drag the area you want for the screenshot.
In the Save Screenshot window, enter a file name and choose a folder, then click Save. Alternatively, import the screenshot directly into an image-editing application without saving it first. Click Copy to Clipboard then paste the image in the other application, or drag the screenshot thumbnail to the application.

Keyboard shortcuts

Quickly take a screenshot of the desktop, a window, or an area at any time using these global keyboard shortcuts:

Prt Scrn to take a screenshot of the desktop.
Alt+Prt Scrn to take a screenshot of a window.
Shift+Prt Scrn to take a screenshot of an area you select.

When you use a keyboard shortcut, the image is automatically saved in your Pictures folder in your home folder with a file name that begins with Screenshot and includes the date and time it was taken.

score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Aug 21 '22 at 14:35

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Install Kazam Screencaster by:

sudo apt install kazam

Then run the app from the Activities.

answered Aug 21 '22 at 14:35

kenorb

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score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Mar 15 '23 at 09:03

I'm surprised nobody mentioned Flameshot yet

Homepage: https://flameshot.org/
Source code: github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot

Install:

sudo apt install flameshot

Launching

After install create shortcut for

/usr/bin/flameshot gui

Usage

After launching the /usr/bin/flameshot gui, press the Share button:

It also supports various types of annotations, etc:

How do I take a screenshot?

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Install:

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