Capture screen image using ksnapshot in Ubuntu

Posted on August 12, 2008

KSnapshot is a simple applet for taking screenshots. It is capable of capturing images of the whole desktop, a single window, a section of a window or a selected region. The images can then be saved in a variety of formats.

If you have not installed this tool,you can add it by the “Add/Remove” applet.

add ksnapshot

ksnapshot2

After the installation been completed,ksnapshot can be started by the following ways:

  • You may start KSnapshot by selecting it from the K-Menu->Graphics->KSnapshot (Screen Capture Program).

ksnapshot

  • You may start KSnapshot by entering the following at the command prompt: 
    % ksnapshot &

Once KSnapshot starts, you will see a window like the following:

ksnap

Examples of whole desktop, a single window, a section of a window and a selected region taken by ksnapshot:

full

single

section

region

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