Comments on: Take & Manage Awesome Screenshots on Windows, Linux and Mac

By: Saul

Saul — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:40:19 +0000

Great article, gscrot is now named Shutter: http://shutter-project.org/

By: Aibek

Aibek — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:50:17 +0000

I prefer Webkut, adobe air app http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/8-adobe-air-apps-that-dont-suck/

By: Rarst

Rarst — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:34:44 +0000

I use old freeware version of FastStone Capture. Portable, easy to use and some useful settings like screenshot output.

By: Varun Kashyap

Varun Kashyap — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 06:10:28 +0000

Hitting printscreen and pasting in an image editor works fine, most of the times but if you are working on a project and need to take say 50 screenshots then you need to put in some management. Here in come these programs. They allow you to directly upload your screenshots to an image hosting site,allow you to manage multiple screenshots from within the same window (you dont have to worry to paste a screenshot and then take the next shot from the fear of the next shot overwriting the previous one on the clipboard.), apply effects etc all from within the same program

@ mackenzie
For other distros you can download the tar at the Gscrot Team PPA https://launchpad.net/~gscrot/+archive, extract and check debian/control for dependencies, then execute ./gscrot.pl

By: Binny V A

Binny V A — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:25:24 +0000

I prefer using KSnapShot in Linux.

By: Blake Elias

Blake Elias — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:54:37 +0000

I agree with you there, most screenshot needs are simple enough to just get the whole screen with print key or only the active window with alt+print keys. In Ubuntu, I find that the print key won’t work if I’m taking the screenshot with a right click menu open. If I want that menu in my screenshot, then I use gnome-screenshot with a delay of a few seconds.

By: jke

jke — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:58:54 +0000

Errr….I always only use the PRINT button on my keyboard and then
a) WinXP: paste it into any image editor
b) Ubuntu: automatically save it on the desktop.

Simple as that

By: Mackenzie Morgan

Mackenzie Morgan — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:54:46 +0000

There actually is a default GNOME app called gnome-screenshot capable of doing time delays, some border effects, and fullscreen or window only. Combine that with Compiz’s ability to screenshot specific areas, and nothing extra is really needed.

And um, you may want to clarify that /etc/apt/sources.list is only what you edit on Debian-based distros. For Red Hat, Fedora, and CentOS, the file would be in /etc/yum.repos.d/ and for source distros like Gentoo or Arch…no idea. That PPA is also only Ubuntu-compatible, so really those installation instructions are just for Ubuntu…though I’m sure the app itself will work cross-distro.