[kwlug-disc] Easy screenshot software

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

Well, I already have KDE, so use KSnapShot.

The features I like are:

- I can take a snapshot of a part of the screen (which I select).
- A configurable delay in seconds before the capture is done. Helps a lot
when something only shows on mouse over, ...etc.
- You can save to a file (.png mostly), or copy the image to the clipboard
so you can post it to KDE's imgur, or in LibreOffice.

I did not know that some screen capture programs can do annotations, or
allow you to edit/obfuscate portions of the screen. I used GIMP for that
(which I don't like, given my aversion for graphics programs in general).

Would be nice to find a Linux program that would do that ...



On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:41 PM, Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> 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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