Screenshot

We installed a new default Screenshot tool. When you press PrintScreen the Screen will get a dark overlay and you can select the Area you want to screenshot and immediatly start editing the image.

Features:

• Adjustable selection
• Direct upload to the imgur to share the screenshot online
• Usual features like 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

A quick usage preview can be seen here:

For additional information visit the git: https://github.com/lupoDharkael/flameshot

For more advanced user, we also installed scrot, a command line tool that takes screenshot 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 homedirectory
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.

Old info

• simple:

  • press Print Screen: whole Desktop.

    • You find the Print Screen (or in german Druck) key in the top row above Insert, Home, Page Up).

  • press Alt + Print Screen: active window.

  • Next Step:

    • Save the file and load it to the desired application (image editor, or upload to a webpage, ...), or

    • copy it to the clipboard, switch to a image editor (f.e. Gimp) and paste the image there

• advanced:

  • Applications > Accessoires > Take Screenshot

  • Options:
    • Select 'delay' in seconds to snapshot
    • Choose: a) full screen, b) only active window, c) specify region with the mouse.
  • If you use 'Take Screenshot' regulary, put it in your top panel:

    • right mouse button over the panel > Add to panel > Double click 'Application Launcher' > click on '+' of Acessoires > scroll down and select 'Take Screenshot' > click 'Add' > click 'Close'.

• Further editing:

  • Gimp: Applications > Grafics > Gimp.

  • Short introduction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LmW5ndnEqw

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:
  • Login to 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.