How to avoid white border on Spectacle screenshots?

[chimak111]

When I take a screenshot of the active window with Spectacle, there's a white border around the image. Is there an option to get rid of that border?

This is on Kubuntu 16.04 with Plasma 5.8 LTS.

[SpecialEd]

Try Screenshot, works well for me.

[chimak111]

Do you mean gnome-screenshot? I've used that as well as scrot. Neither did the border thing by default. But I'd rather stay with the default tool.

[GreyGeek]

Custom Keyboard Shortcuts contains the "Meta-Print" combo for Spectacle to take a screenshot of the ACTIVE window. Also, at least on my Neon User Edition, after I activate a screenshot a popup occurs in the lower right corner giving me an opportunity to open it with Gwenview. I click on that "open" button and in Gwenview I use the crop command to crop off any part of the edges I don't want.

[oshunluvr]

This does not happen on my system. I suspect that your snapshot includes the window drop shadow - I don't have one. What Desktop theme and Look and Feel do you have selected?

[oshunluvr]

There's also an option when you snapshot a window using Spectacle: "Include window titlebar and borders." If you uncheck that box you should lose the drop-shadow but you'd also lose the title bar. :/

[Rog131]

When I take a screenshot of the active window with Spectacle, there's a white border around the image. Is there an option to get rid of that border?

This is on Kubuntu 16.04 with Plasma 5.8 LTS.

Bug 372408 - Spectacle Capture Active Window includes Unwanted Margin Outside Active Window - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=372408

Software recommendation - What screenshot tools are available?: https://askubuntu.com/questions/6558...-are-available

Screen-capture apps: ftp://linuxmafia.com/kb/Apps/screen-capture.html

[GreyGeek]

This does not happen on my system. I suspect that your snapshot includes the window drop shadow - I don't have one. What Desktop theme and Look and Feel do you have selected?

Breeze all the way.

[wizard10000]

This actually works pretty well for me. I have a laptop, so I've bound it to Alt-End (if I used a function key the end key would be print screen) - takes a screenshot of the active window and puts it in ~/Desktop

scrot -u '%Y-%m-%d_$wx$h.png' -e 'mv $f ~/Desktop/'

edit: Since I'm on a roll here here are some other screenshot toys -

I have this mapped to Shift-End, it allows me to select a rectangular section of the screen:

scrot -s '%Y-%m-%d_$wx$h.png' -e 'mv $f ~/Desktop/'

And mapped to Fn-End, which is actually the print screen key, this takes a snapshot of the entire desktop.

scrot '%Y-%m-%d_$wx$h.png' -e 'mv $f ~/Desktop/'

[GreyGeek]

This actually works pretty well for me. I have a laptop, so I've bound it to Alt-End (if I used a function key the end key would be print screen) - takes a screenshot of the active window and puts it in ~/Desktop

scrot -u '%Y-%m-%d_$wx$h.png' -e 'mv $f ~/Desktop/'

scrot?

[wizard10000]

scrot?

Command line screenshooter. Very lightweight.

Here's a man page - http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/...1/scrot.1.html

[GreyGeek]

Ah, it's in the repository! Now it's in my tool box!

[chimak111]

This does not happen on my system. I suspect that your snapshot includes the window drop shadow - I don't have one. What Desktop theme and Look and Feel do you have selected?

In Look and Feel, I have Breeze Dark but for Desktop theme I've stayed with Breeze.

Bug 372408 - Spectacle Capture Active Window includes Unwanted Margin Outside Active Window - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=372408
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Thanks!

scrot?

I know it sounds a bit impolite, but look at it as a "shortening" of screenshot

I used it a lot when on Lubuntu. It's the default tool there. Scrot can't capture the mouse pointer. In case that's a deal breaker, gnome-screenshot can and gnome-screenshot works from the command-line as well. wizard10000 has given shortcuts for scrot. Similar ones could be made for gnome-screenshot. This is from my Openbox rc.xml:

    <keybind key="Print">        # Immediate gnome-screenshot of active window with pointer
  <action name="Execute"><command>sh -c 'gnome-screenshot -wp -f /home/Dell/Dropbox/Screenshots/"$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)".png'</command></action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="W-Print">        # Delayed gnome-screenshot of full screen with pointer
  <action name="Execute"><command>sh -c 'gnome-screenshot -p -d 10 -f /home/Dell/Dropbox/Screenshots/"$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)".png'</command></action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="S-Print">        # Interactive gnome-screenshot
  <action name="Execute"><command>sh -c 'gnome-screenshot -a -f /home/Dell/Dropbox/Screenshots/"$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)".png'</command></action>
</keybind>

I think the "sh -c" may not be needed in Kubuntu.

[wizard10000]

Scrot can't capture the mouse pointer, in case that's a deal breaker whereas gnome-screenshot can and gnome-screenshot works from the command-line as well.

You just gave me an idea. I'd only need a cursor for an active window screenshot so I think I'm gonna switch to gnome-screenshot for just that requirement. If I don't need the cursor I can just move it away from the active window.

Collaboration at its finest - thanks

[chimak111]

You just gave me an idea. I'd only need a cursor for an active window screenshot so I think I'm gonna switch to gnome-screenshot for just that requirement. If I don't need the cursor I can just move it away from the active window.

Collaboration at its finest - thanks

Onlt too happy to be of help!

These are the three shortcuts I set up for gnome-screenshot (GSS):

Meta+Ctrl+I [U]I[/U]nteractive GSS
Meta+Ctrl+A [u]A[/u]ctive GSS
Meta+Ctrl+D [u]D[/u]elayed GSS