screen capture Archives

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Corel Capture

Corel Capture is software which captures and saves images of your computer screen with one click, including the entire screen and windows.

Perl Screenshot Tool is a screenshot utility for Linux that works best on X11. It also supports Gnome Wayland through the gnome-screenshot backend.

ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. All manipulations can be achieved through shell commands.

Linux has a good selection of versatile open source screenshot programs. This roundup focuses on command-line tools.

slop (Select Operation) is an application that queries for a selection from the user and prints the region to stdout.

grim is a command-line utility to take screenshots of Wayland desktops. It currently needs support for the screencopy protocol to work.

shotman is billed as uncompromising screenshot GUI for Wayland compositors. It is designed for interactive usage.

shotgun is a minimal screenshot utility for X11 which exports PNG screenshots to file or stdout.

maim (Make Image) is a utility that takes screenshots of your desktop.

gnome-screenshot is a utility used in GNOME which takes a picture of the desktop or of a window and saves it into a file.