Version 0.1.1 Created by Evan Coury
GtkGrab is an open source tool for Linux and Mac that takes a screenshot of a window or specified area of the screen, uploads it to a web server of your choice, and copies the URL to your clipboard automatically. Once you start using it, you'll wonder how you got along without it. GtkGrab is essentially a free and open source version of the commercial TinyGrab.com software/service, except that it also works on Linux and you don't have to pay to use your own server. The name GtkGrab implies that it may only work in GTK-based desktop environment such as Gnome, however this is no longer the case (though it was originally). To be clear, GtkGrab has been tested to work on Linux running both Gnome and KDE as well as on Mac OSX.
- Press your specified keyboard shortcut.
- On Linux: Either click and drag to specify an area of the screen to capture, or click on the title of a window to capture just that window.
- On Mac: Use the space bar to toggle between mouse and window selection modes.
- Within a few seconds, you should get an unobtrusive notification that your screenshot has been uploaded and that the URL has been copied to your clipboard.
- Clone your own copy via Git.
- Set a username and password in handler.php and upload it to your server.
- Create a directory called
capson your server in the same directory as handler.php and chmod it to 777. - Copy config.cfg-sample to config.cfg. Set the username and password to match handler.php and posturl to be the URL to handler.php.
- Follow any platform-specific instructions below.
In your terminal, run the following command as root or via sudo:
yum install scrot ImageMagick xclip
In Gnome, set up a keyboard shortcut for GtkGrab/screenshot of your choosing via System -> Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts.
In your terminal, run the following command:
sudo apt-get install scrot imagemagick xclip
In Gnome, set up a keyboard shortcut for GtkGrab/screenshot of your choosing via System -> Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts.
In your terminal, run the following command as root or via sudo:
pacman -S scrot imagemagick xclip
In Gnome, set up a keyboard shortcut for GtkGrab/screenshot of your choosing via System -> Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts.
- Install Growl and growlnotify from http://growl.info/
- Use automator to run
GtkGrab/screenshot-macvia the keyboard shortcut of your choice. Instructions for this can be found here, except where it says to select "Launch Application", you should select "Run Shell Script" instead.
Sorry, GtkGrab does not support your operating system. If anyone would like to add Windows support, please fork the project and let me know!
- P: After taking a screenshot no notification is displayed, when running it from the command line the error 'sh: notify-send: not found'
- A: Install notify-osd libnotify-bin via your package manager
- P: ImportError: No module named ConfigParser
- A: GtkGrab wants python2 but your default is python3, you need to change the first line in screenshot to point to your python2, /usr/bin/python2 for example
GtkGrab is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 3. See COPYING file for details.