ScreenGrab

Overview

An application for creating screenshots. ScreenGrab uses the Qt framework and thus, it is independent from any desktop environment.

Features

• Screenshot of screen area, window, fullscreen and last selected area
• Delay
• Edit directly in other applications
• Automatic saving; insert date+time in filename
• Fit to edges by right click
• Custom shortcuts

Installation

Compiling source code

Build requirements

• Qt6 >= 6.6
• CMake >= 3.1.0 (only for building ScreenGrab from sources)
• GCC > 4.5
• KF6WindowSystem
• lxqt-build-tools
• libqtxdg(if compiled with the ability to edit screenshots in external apps, which is the case by default)

To build ScreenGrab from sources, use these commands:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake [BUILD OPTIONS] ../
make
make install

Build options

You can use some or all of these parameters to customise your build.

• -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX - Install prefix for Linux distro. Default setting: "/usr".
• -DSG_XDG_CONFIG_SUPPORT - Place config files into XDGC_CONFIG_HOME directory (usually - ~/.config/${app_name) ). Default setting: ON. In previous versions the config files were stored in ~/.screengrab (Set this parameter to "OFF" to store the config files here).
• -DSG_EXT_UPLOADS - Enable uploading screenshots to image hosting services. Default setting: ON.
• -DSG_DBUS_NOTIFY - Enable D-Bus notifications.
• -DSG_GLOBALSHORTCUTS - Enable global shortcuts for main actions to create screenshots. Default setting: ON.
• -DSG_USE_SYSTEM_QXT - Use system version Qxt Library for global shortcuts. Default setting: OFF.
• -DSG_DOCDIR - Name for the directory of user's documentation. Default setting: "screengrab". Dfault setting: OFF.
• -DDEV_VERSION - Set a dev-version here, maybe git describe $foo. Default not set.

Build notes

For Debian based Linux distributions please use the distribution build tools. One can get the source-code with

apt source screengrab # Sources for the released package
- or -
git clone https://salsa.debian.org/lxqt-team/screengrab

Build with the tools provided by devscripts or better with pbuilder or sbuild

Binary packages

Official binary packages are available in all major distributions. Just use the distributions' package manager to search for string 'screengrab'.

LICENSE

Screengrab is licensed under the GPL v2. See file LICENSE in docs directory for more information

Copyright

(c) 2014-2022, LXQt Project
(c) 2009-2013, Artem 'DOOMer' Galichkin

Translation

Translations can be done in LXQt-Weblate