The many ways to take screenshots on Ubuntu

1 · Amit Merchant · June 28, 2020, 5:23 p.m.
I take a lot of screenshots and they are part of my daily workflow. As I mentioned at my uses page, I use Ubuntu 18.04 LTS as my primary OS and there are native shortcuts to take screen shot in this particular OS. PrtSc - The classic way to print the entire screen is by hitting PrtSc which ultimately saves the screenshot in the Pictures directory. Alt + PrtSc - The combination of these two keys takes the screenshot of the active window and saves it in the Pictures directory. Shift + PrtSc - Thi...