An application for creating screenshots for X11 and Wayland (using wlr-screencopy-unstable-v1). ScreenGrab uses the Qt framework and thus, it is independent from any desktop environment.
- Screenshot of screen area, window (X11 only), fullscreen and last selected area
- Screen selection (Wayland only)
- Delay
- Edit directly in other applications
- Automatic saving; insert date+time in custom filename
- Copy file name or full path to clipboard
- Fit to edges by right click (X11 only)
- Custom shortcuts
- Command line options
- Qt6 >= 6.6
- CMake >= 3.18.0
- GCC > 4.5
- KF6WindowSystem (for X11 support)
- qt6-wayland >= 6.6 (for Wayland support)
- layershell-qt >= 6 (for Wayland support)
- 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
You can use some or all of these parameters to customise your build.
- -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX - Install prefix for Linux distro. Default setting: "/usr". (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_DBUS_NOTIFY - Enable D-Bus notifications.
- -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.
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
Official binary packages are available in all major distributions. Just use the distributions' package manager to search for string 'screengrab'.
Screengrab is licensed under the GPL v2. See file LICENSE in docs directory for more information
(c) 2014-2025, LXQt Team (c) 2009-2013, Artem 'DOOMer' Galichkin
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