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Screencapture made easy with GScrot

GScrot  is a GTK+ 2.0 screenshot application written in perl. GScrot covers all features of common command line tools like scrot or import and adds reasonable new features combined with a comfortable GUI using the GTK+ 2.0 framework.


Features:
 * take a screenshot of your complete desktop, a rectangular area or capture a website
 * take screenshot directly or with a specified delay time
 * save the screenshots to a specified directory and name them in a convenient way (using special wild-cards)
 * GScrot is fully integrated into the Gnome Desktop (TrayIcon etc.)
 * generate thumbnails directly when you are taking a screenshot and set a size level in %
 * GScrot session collection
    – keep track of all screenshots during session
    – copy screeners to clipboard
    – print screenshots
    – delete screenshots
    – rename your file
* upload your files directly to Image-Hosters, retrieve all the needed links and share them with others
edit your screenshots directly using the embedded drawing tool

Ultimately an application that meets all requirement and easy to use

Installation:
First add the following repository into your sources.list. This is the line to add:

  deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gscrot/ubuntu main intrepid 

From a Terminal:
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install gscrot


1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just a fyi, GScrot is now Shutter :)

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