[kwlug-disc] Easy screenshot software

[Ralph Janke]

On 2014-09-23 11:54, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> Well, I already have KDE, so use KSnapShot.
> 
> The features I like are:
> 

I totally agree

> - 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/ [1]
>> 
>> 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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