GNOME Screenshot
Screen capture on GNOME desktops. Press the Print key and pick an area, a window or the whole screen.
Our verdict
Screen capture on a GNOME desktop is part of the desktop rather than an app you go and find. Press Print, a small toolbar appears, and you choose an area, a window or the whole screen. Shots land in your Pictures folder and on the clipboard at the same time.
That covers what most people used the Snipping Tool for. The one real gap is annotation. There is no pen, highlighter or blur tool after the shot, so if you are the sort of person who circles things in red before sending a screenshot, you will want a dedicated capture app as well.
The name is confusing. Older systems shipped a standalone program called gnome-screenshot, and that name is still what you will read in forum posts, but on a current Ubuntu or Fedora the capture tool is built into the desktop itself.
What's good
- Built into the desktop, so there is nothing to install or set up
- The Print key opens it, the same key you already press on Windows
- Choose an area, a single window or the whole screen, and it saves to your Pictures folder
- Records the screen as a video from the same window, which the old Snipping Tool could not do
What to know first
- No drawing, arrows or blurring after the capture, so you need a second app to annotate
- No built-in text recognition to pull words out of an image
- The separate gnome-screenshot program is a leftover from older versions and is not the one most systems use now
- KDE systems use their own tool called Spectacle instead, so the keys and window differ
The details
- Cost
- Free
- Open source
- Yes (GPL-2.0-or-later)
- How you install it
- .deb installer, .rpm installer, Built-in app store
Windows apps it can replace
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