How To Take Screenshot In Linux?

With this guide, I'm going to tell you how to take a screenshot on Linux. We all capture screengrab irrespective of whatever operating system we use. Normally,...

Swayam Prakash

Last updated on September 12, 2023

Swayam Prakash

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Swayam is a professional tech blogger with Masters Degree in Computer Applications and also has experience with Android development. He is a staunch admirer of Stock Android OS.Apart from tech blogging, he loves gaming, traveling and playing/teaching guitar.

Various Methods to Take Screenshot on Linux

The regular keyboard-based commands have a few variants. That will allow you to customize your screenshot image.

Using Keyboard to Take A Screenshot on Linux

To take a full screenshot of the entire display simply hit the PrtScn button on the keyboard

If you Alt + PrtScn key combination the screenshot captured will be automatically saved to the native folder Pictures

To add more scope of customization press Shift+PrtScn to take a screenshot and then crop the required part instead of saving the whole screen content

Features of the Gnome Screenshot Utility on Linux

Alternatively, you can use the native Gnome utility to take a screenshot on Linux. Here are some of its features that will come in very handy in customizing the screen content image.

In some distribution of Linux, you can find this app natively present on the system. For some other distributions, you may have to manually download and install it.

open GIMP
To capture a screenshot click on File
Then click Create > Screenshot
The screenshot taking process on GIMP is entirely similar to that of Gnome
You can add a delay timer of a few seconds before capturing the correct screenshot
Also, you can select between capturing the whole screen or a part of it by cropping
If you want you can also include the mouse pointer in the screenshot
Once you have set all the parameters you can click on Snap to take the screenshot.
Then to save the screengrab simply press Shift + Ctrl + S
You may also click File > click Save As

Using Shutter App for Screenshots

Here is another app called Shutter that you can install and use to capture a screenshot on Linux.

To install it on Debian distros,

search in the package manager for Shutter
To install it, give the command sudo add-apt-repository ppa: shutter/ppa
Hit enter
Then type sudo apt-get install Shutter

Here is how you can take screenshots using Shutter.

Launch Shutter
There will be three options Selection, Desktop, and Window
Selecting the option desktop captures the screen automatically
Selection as the name suggests allows you to select the part of the screen that you capture or grab the entire content of the screen
If you select the options Window, then click on any active Window you are on to capture it instantly
Once you capture the screen the screenshot image will be saved by default to the Pictures folder.

So, these are the various ways by which you can take screenshots on Linux. Do you already use any of these methods for capturing screengrab.? Let me know in the comments section.

How To Take Screenshot In Linux?

Various Methods to Take Screenshot on Linux

Using Keyboard to Take A Screenshot on Linux

Features of the Gnome Screenshot Utility on Linux

Use GIMP Image Editor to Save Screenshots

Using Shutter App for Screenshots

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