It should be easy – take a screenshot. Well – turns out it is but it’s not exactly the latest and greatest in tools…

“Scrot” is a screen capture tool installed by default on pi os. Nice – but – it is just that – it captures the whole screen. Just press “Prt Scrn” and click – a nice picture saved in your Pictures directory. Fine, all well and good, but what if you only want the active window?

A quick google found the “Gnome Snapshot tool” (gnome-snapshot). It’s simple and effective. I allows you to capture:

• fullscreen
• active window
• area,

How to install?

sudo apt install gnome-screenshot

Run it from the menu, place it on your desktop or change the keybindings for prt scrn.

Hint – to change keybindings – here’s a useful link to Tom’s Hardware:

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-custom-keyboard-shortcuts,40215.html

Nice 🙂