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How to take Screenshots using HotShots tool

Take Screenshots Of Your Desktop With The HotShots Tool

Hotshots is a lightweight tool for capturing screenshot which is written in C++ programming language. Using this you can take screenshots of the a specific window, specific area or entire screen. It supports various formats like, bmp, gif, jpg, png etc.


To install Hotshots tool

Add the repository, before installing HotShots tool.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/Desktop# apt-add-repository ppa:dhor/myway
 Every photographer needs some tools...
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~dhor/+archive/ubuntu/myway
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp2gm5s5lw/secring.gpg'  created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp2gm5s5lw/pubring.gpg'  created
gpg: requesting key 93330B78 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmp2gm5s5lw/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key 93330B78: public key " Launchpad PPA for Dariusz Duma"  imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
OK

Utilise the following command to update the system.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/Desktop# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [95.7 kB]                  
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [94.5 kB]    
Get:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/dhor/myway/ubuntu xenial InRelease [17.5 kB]                
Hit:5 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease                                                   
Get:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/dhor/myway/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages [8,652 B]
Get:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/dhor/myway/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages [8,464 B]
Get:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/dhor/myway/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en [5,260 B]
Fetched 230 kB in 1s (129 kB/s)                                  
Reading package lists... Done
Now we can install the hotshots tool
root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/Desktop# apt-get install hotshots
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
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Setting up libqxt-core0:amd64 (0.6.2-3) ...
Setting up libqxt-gui0:amd64 (0.6.2-3) ...
Setting up hotshots (2.2.0-1dhor~xenial) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...

To Launch HotShots

Run the following command to Launch HotShots.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/Desktop# hotshots


Configure the output path, capture mode, snapshot delay and after snapshot settings

Click Print, to print the screenshot.

Click open editor and add annotations, to edit the screenshot.

To take a snap of entire screen, click Grab screen

To change the settings, click Preferences
Startup settings

Snapshot settings

Shortcut menu

Network settings

Uploaders settings

Grab region

Tag : HotShots tool
FAQ
Q
how to launch the Hotshots using the command?
A
By using the command type in the search bar
Syntax: " Hotshots"
Q
What are the Alternatives to HotShots for Linux?
A
There are so many some of them
Shutter, Lightscreen, Fireshot.
Q
It is possible to edit the pictures in hotshots?
A
No, you can take only screenshots of the Picture in Hotshots.
Q
How to start the application graphically?
A
You can find the application from the menu search
Q
Why I use the same repo for installing on linuxmint?
A
Yes. You can. As Linuxmint also based on Ubuntu distribution you can follow the same installation procedure too.