Screenshot utility for linux

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For a while I've been looking for a good, fast, screenshot tool for Linux. I came down to use Shutter, however, I just want something which does the following:

  • Click hotkey
  • Select what to take a screenshot off
  • Click enter
  • Upload to FTP in the background
  • Give me a notification that the screenshot direct URL is now in my clipboard

Anyone know of some open-source projects, or similar which achieves this? I know Scrot can do some of it, however, I've not been able to make a script which could do this properly for me.

Sirupsen

Posted 2009-12-26T19:14:11.720

Reputation: 630

Linux-based Screen Capture program?, What screenshot tools are available?, Linux screenshot tool that saves shots directly, without asking for a filename – phuclv – 2015-10-14T08:11:51.127

Wrote my own a while ago: http://sirupsen.com/a-simple-imgur-bash-screenshot-utility/

– Sirupsen – 2010-10-23T22:09:54.480

1Why is this marked as community wiki? – ℝaphink – 2009-12-28T20:38:21.497

Answers

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I like ksnapshot, which comes by default with KDE.

And it can upload to ftp/sftp/fish/etc. easily:

Ksnapshot using FTP

ℝaphink

Posted 2009-12-26T19:14:11.720

Reputation: 3 531

Agreed. KSnapshot is easily the best tool out there. Not sure about the KDE4 version -- might be better or worse than the KDE3 version I last used. – Lee B – 2009-12-26T19:41:10.743

This doesn't seem to come with remote uploading though. :/ – Sirupsen – 2009-12-26T19:59:27.040

2Yes it does, because all KDE programs (that I know) support ftp/sftp/fish schemes in their Open/Save boxes. Just put sftp://user@host in the location when saving the file and it should do. – ℝaphink – 2009-12-26T20:56:54.227

+1 anything that talks to the GNOME or KDE vfs will happily save-to-upload-via-FTP. GNOME's screenshot tool does the same, though it only offers full-screen or current-window capture. – bobince – 2009-12-27T02:12:03.507

+1 - In the KDE4 version you can add the imagebin plasmoid to the desktop, take the screenshot by hitting the <kbd>PrintScreen</kbd> and directly drag it to the plasmoid to give you link to the image. No need to save it on your system – Sathyajith Bhat – 2009-12-27T05:30:13.697

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