Ubuntu: Up and Running

The Take Screenshot Program

Ubuntu comes with a handy utility for grabbing all or part of a screen, aptly called Take Screenshot. It’s the program I used for the majority of the screen grabs in this book, and is available from the Applications menu. When run, it opens the window shown in Figure 14-15.

Figure 14-15. The Take Screenshot program

The main choices it offers include grabbing the whole desktop, the currently selected window, or an area of the screen. The first and second choices occur after the delay shown, which can be between 0 and 99 seconds. The delay gives you a chance to set up any options or menus to grab and then move the mouse pointer out of the way of the area you want to focus on.

When the current window choice is selected, only its contents will be grabbed, unless you select “Include the window border,” in which case, it will also include the title bar. The available effects for grabbing a window are drop shadow and border.

The third choice lets you select an area to grab, which you do by dragging a rectangle around the part of the screen that you want. When you release the mouse button, that area is then grabbed.

In all cases, a window then pops up, offering to save the grabbed image as Screenshot.png (followed by Screenshot-1.png, and so on, for subsequent grabs). You can change the filename offered if you wish, as well as the destination folder. When you are ready, ...