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Institute of Mathematics - PublicMathWiki:

Screenshot

  • Standard tool: flameshot, i.e. screenshot with graphical editor; Applications > Graphics > Flameshot

  • (mate-screenshot) Applications > Accessoires > Take Screenshot

When you press Print-Screen (key: 'prt scn' or 'print' or 'druck') the screen will get a dark overlay and you can select the area you want to screenshot and immediately start editing the image.

Features:

  • Adjustable selection
  • Copy to clipboard or save to disk
  • Highlight or blur parts of the screenshot
  • Place markings such as arrows, circles and rectangles on the image
  • Optional direct upload (no account needed) to http://imgur.com to share the screenshot online

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command line

For more advanced user, 'scrot' is a command line tool that takes screenshot of either fullscreen, current window or selection area. You can bind this command to the printscreen key if you visit System > Hardware > Keyboard Shortcut and scroll down to the custom keybinds. There you will see the Printscreen function and can edit it to execute one of those:

# Create a screenshot of the entire screen in your home directory with a datetime stamp
scrot ~/%y%m%d_%H%M.png

# Create a screenshot of the current window in your home directory
scrot -ub ~/%y%m%d_%H%M.png

# Opens a selection tool to select the area to screenshot
scrot -s ~/%y%m%d_%H%M.png

For advanced info on scrot type man scrot in a terminal.

Workflow to put images to the Wiki

  • Activate the window to take screenshot of (left mouse click inside window).
  • Press Alt + Print Screen

  • Save it.
    • Default destination is your 'Desktop'. If you already have a file called 'Screenshot.png' there, a number will be appended to the filename.
  • Wiki:
    • Log into the wiki homepage.
    • Select the desired page (view, not edit!!!).

    • Click on Attach File (bottom of the page).

    • In File to uplaod select the file and press Upload.

    • Copy the command [[attachment:screenshot.png]] to the clipboard.

    • Edit the page: choose Text mode not 'GUI Mode'!

    • Insert the command [[attachment:screenshot.png]]. Replace [[ with {{ and ]] with }}

    • Save the work.

PublicMathWiki: screenshot (last edited 2021-02-05 10:01:10 by eseide)