Linux has a good selection of versatile open source screenshot programs. This roundup focuses on command-line tools.
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Tag: screen capture
HyprCap – capture screenshots and screen recordings on Hyprland
HyprCap is a utility to easily capture screenshots and screen recordings on Hyprland.
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Kasasa snips and pins useful information
Clip and pin what’s important to a small floating window, so you don’t have to switch between windows or workspaces repeatedly.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Corel Capture
Corel Capture is software which captures and saves images of your computer screen with one click, including the entire screen and windows.
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Perl Screenshot Tool
Perl Screenshot Tool is a screenshot utility for Linux that works best on X11. It also supports Gnome Wayland through the gnome-screenshot backend.
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ImageMagick – create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images
ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. All manipulations can be achieved through shell commands.
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slop queries for a selection from the user and prints the region to stdout
slop (Select Operation) is an application that queries for a selection from the user and prints the region to stdout.
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grim – screenshot utility for Wayland
grim is a command-line utility to take screenshots of Wayland desktops. It currently needs support for the screencopy protocol to work.
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shotman is a screenshot GUI for Wayland
shotman is billed as uncompromising screenshot GUI for Wayland compositors. It is designed for interactive usage.
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shotgun is a minimal screenshot utility for X11
shotgun is a minimal screenshot utility for X11 which exports PNG screenshots to file or stdout.
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maim takes screenshots of your desktop
maim (Make Image) is a utility that takes screenshots of your desktop.
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gnome-screenshot – small utility for taking screenshots
gnome-screenshot is a utility used in GNOME which takes a picture of the desktop or of a window and saves it into a file.
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CoreShot – simple lightweight screen capture utility
CoreShot is a screen capture utility for C-Suite. This is free and open source software written in the C++ programming language.
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Spectacle – simple application for capturing desktop screenshots
Spectacle is a simple application for capturing desktop screenshots. It’s the default capture program for KDE.
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Shutter – free screenshot tool
Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot application. Take a screenshot of a specific area, window, your whole screen, or even of a website.
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ScreenGrab – screenshot tool
ScreenGrab is an application for creating screenshots. ScreenGrab uses the Qt framework.
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scrot – command line screen capture utility
scrot (SCReenshOT) is a simple command line screen capture utility. It uses imlib2 to grab and save images.
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Ksnip – screenshot and annotation tool
Ksnip is a Qt-based cross-platform screenshot tool that provides many annotation features for your screenshots.
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GIMP – free and open-source raster graphics editor
GIMP stands for the GNU Image Manipulation Program, a freely distributed program for photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
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Best Free and Open Source Software – Graphics
Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering HDR, renderers, modelers, painting, camera, photo metadata, image viewers, screen capture.
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