
I take many screenshots during my day, for work and for fun. I use the Cinnamon desktop environment in Linux Mint. I kept forgetting the keyboard shortcuts to do screenshots directly rather than opening up GNOME Screenshot.
Here are the default shortcuts. You can customize them in Keyboard Settings, as shown in the image that started this post.
Next, with pictures!
Take A Screenshot
The Print
key alone will save your entire screen.
Take A Screenshot Of A Window
Alt + Print
together to save a single window.
Take A Screenshot Of An Area
Shift + Print
for an area screenshot.
Your mouse point will change to a crosshair. Click and drag to select the area you want to save.
Sometimes I had to hit this combo a few times to get it work. That could be a software bug somewhere or it could just be grit in my keyboard.
Record Desktop
Control + Shift + Alt + R
will start recording your desktop.
The same combo will end the recording session.
No sound is recorded.
Recordings are saved as WebM files in your home directory.
WebM support is widespread, although some browsers require codecs to be installed.
For more advanced screen recording functionality, RecordMyDesktop looks like a good bet.
Wanted to show you a video of the area screenshot functionality. The keyboard shortcut for that doesn’t seem to work when recording. Instead I made a video of using the screenshot application.
I tried several times before I noticed a little red light in the lower right corner when recording is active.
Since this is more to show about recording videos than anything else, I decided the full resolution video was not needed. I installed FFmpeg and used it to resize the video, following the FFmpeg resizing tutorial.
$ sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
$ ffmpeg -i ~/cinnamon-20161231-9.webm -vf scale=720:-1
static/video/2017/cinnamon-desktop-recording.webm