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 🙂
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