$ gnome-screenshot

Capture Only the Current Window

$ gnome-screenshot

Capture a Screenshot of the present terminal Open the screenshot tool using the command line

$ gnome-screenshot -i

Capture Only the Current Window

$ gnome-screenshot

Capture screenshot including mouse pointer

$ gnome-screenshot -p

Capture screenshot of the present terminal

$ gnome-screenshot -w

Capture screenshot of the present screen using -d delay time

$ gnome-screenshot -d 2

Capture screen short of the present terminal using -d delay time

$ gnome-screenshot -w -d 2

Screen shot for the selected area

$ gnome-screenshot -a

Screen short for selected area to clipboard (most useful)

$ gnome-screenshot -ac

Screen short with a terminal window along with border

$ gnome-screenshot -w -b

First install ImageMagick using command written below:

$ apt-get install imagemagick

Run the command to take the screenshot

$ import -window root Pictures/Image5.png

Capture selected area screenshot

$ import hello.png

Take a screenshot and resize it according to your need

$ import -window root -resize 640 -pause 4 Pictures/myimage.png

1st- Kazam Is a screen recorder application for Linux. It can also be used for taking screenshot. To Install Kazam on your Ubuntu machine run the command written below.

$ sudo apt install kazam

2nd lookit Another one of the best screenshot applications. This is a git-based application that uses python to run the setup. To install lookit run the command written below.

$ git clone https://github.com/zachtib/lookit.git
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lookit/daily
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install lookit
$ python setup.py install

3rd Gimp

$ sudo snap install gimp

4th tool Shutter The shutter is the well-known and best tool for taking screenshots in Linux. To install the Shutter use the command written below

$ sudo apt-get install shutter

5th tool known as Scrot

$ sudo apt-get install scrot
$ while true; do scrot -d 5 '%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S.png' -e 'mv $f ~/Pictures/'; done

To Create a Shortcut for a selected area screenshot in Linux follow the steps: Step 1 Go to settings

Step 2 Scroll down and click on Keyboard Shortcuts

Step 3 Scroll down and Click on + Icon at the very end of the screen

Step 4 Fill in the same details shown in the image below

Step 5 Click on the Set shortcut and press the keys Shift and PrtScn together.

Step 6 Click on Add you are set to go. Now, whenever you press shift and PrtScn you will see your mouse icon will change to the plus icon. Click anywhere on the screen and drag it to the area you want to save as screen short. That is it. The screenshot will be automatically saved to Picture.

NOW ITS TIME TO SHOW YOU A BONUS TRACK. Let me show you how to create another shortcut that will help us to close the stuck program any time when you press the key and point out the mouse on the program to close. It will close the program with a single click.
Follow the steps once again. Steps from 1 to 3 will be the same. Come to step 4 by repeating all the previous steps. See the image and enter the same test in the boxes in front of you.

Now click on add Shortcut.

To take the screenshots using custom scripts you need to download the script from our GitHub repository. There are various options (tool uses gnome-screenshot command line scripts) you might have not thought of. You can utilize all the scripts in a single click for free. All the available options are shown in the image attached below.


This was it for the day, if you want further explanations on the article please watch the video on our YouTube channel. For now, take care and have fun. See you in the next article.