[kwlug-disc] Easy screenshot software

[Nick Guenther]

gnome-screenshot in clipboard mode + GIMP is probably the closest to  
what you want. Gnome comes with a keyboard shortcut  
(Ctrl+Shift+PrintScreen) that runs `gnome-screenshot -c -a` which lets  
you cut out a rectangle and then copies it to the clipboard. If you  
aren't running gnome you could make your own keyboard shortcut with  
xbindkeys / local environment's keyboard shortcut system to do this  
for you.

Personally, I don't like the annotation feature that is in Win7's  
Clipper app. I would rather do my annotation with a proper drawing app.

-- 
Nick Guenther
4B Stats/CS
University of Waterloo


Quoting William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>:

> - Searching a distro called "Uberstudent" (Ubuntu variation with
>   piles of applications for students), I find only "XFCE
>   Screenshot".
>
> - Searching CentOS/Fedora, I find "Screenshot", probably GNOME.
>
> - Searching OpenSUSE, I see KDE or GNOME version.
>
> - Searching <pkgs.org>, I see mostly GNOME and some XFCE apps.
> --
> William
>
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:41:29PM -0400, Paul Nijjar wrote:
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>> I am looking for some screenshot software for Linux (in particular
>> Debian/Ubuntu). The best screenshot
>> software I know of for Windows is Greenshot: http://getgreenshot.org/
>>
>> Things I like about Greenshot (and want in this software)
>> - Relatively lightweight. Pulling in all of KDE is not nice.
>> - Easy to use in terms of making a screenshot.
>> - Easy to annotate and blur out parts of the image.
>>
>> XFCE has a reasonably nice tool to take screenshots, but it does not
>> have annotation functionality built in (as far as I know).
>>
>> I can take a screenshot with some tool and then use Inkscape to
>> annotate it, but that is not lightweight or easy.
>>
>> Ideally this would be easily installed via Debian/Ubuntu repos.
>>
>> What software am I looking for?
>>
>> - Paul
>>
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