xfce4-screenshooter
Introduction
The Xfce4-screenshooter is an application that can be used to take snapshots of your desktop screen.
This application allows you to capture the entire screen, the active window or a selected region. You can set the delay that elapses before the screenshot is taken and the action that will be done with the screenshot: save it to a PNG file, copy it to the clipboard, open it using another application, or host it on Imgur, a free online image hosting service.
This manual describes how you can use Xfce4-screenshooter, and how you can configure it to your preferences.
Screenshooter
- Using the application – Make screenshots with the application interface or the command-line
- Using the Xfce panel plugin – How to add and configure the panel plugin
Debugging Support
xfce4-screenshooter currently supports three different levels of debugging support, which can be setup using the configure flag `–enable-debug` (check the output of `configure –help`):
| Argument | Description |
|---|---|
| `yes` | This is the default for Git snapshot builds. It adds all kinds of checks to the code, and is therefore likely to run slower. Use this for development of xfce4-screenshooter and locating bugs in xfce4-screenshooter. |
| `minimum` | This is the default for release builds. This is the recommended behaviour. |
| `no` | Disables all sanity checks. Don't use this unless you know exactly what you do. |
Latest Release
- xfce4-screenshooter 1.11.2 released (2025/05/22 11:08)xfce4-screenshooter 1.11.2 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-screenshooter/1.11/xfce4-screenshooter-1.11.2.tar.xz https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-screenshooter/1.11/xfce4-screenshooter-1.11.2.tar.xz?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-screenshooter/1.11/xfce4-screenshooter-1.11.2.tar.xz?sha256 What is xfce4-screenshooter? ============================ This application allows you to capture the entire screen, the active window or a selected region. You can set the delay that elapses before the screenshot is taken and the action that will be done with the screenshot: save it to a PNG file, copy it to the clipboard, open it using another application, or host it on imgur.com. A plugin for the Xfce panel is also available. Website: https://docs.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-screenshooter/start Release notes for 1.11.2 ======================== Meson has been added as a build system in this release, and the associated archive has been generated by 'meson dist'. Although autotools has been retained for the time being and can still be used via 'autogen.sh', meson is now the preferred build system. Autotools support will be probably removed in the next release. This release also removes the Imgur custom action, our client key was no working for a long while. - Fully free a GSList to fix a leak - Fix a string leak in screenshooter_get_filename_for_uri - Properly free a GdkPixbuf to fix a leak - meson-build: Fix manpage install dir - Improve selection background in black surfaces - Fix xfce_resource_save_location leak in main - Replace deprecated exo with libxfce4ui 4.21.0 - Remove imgur upload custom action automatically - Fix build with autotools - Drop Imgur custom action - preferences: Add link to the documentation for custom actions examples - Add support to Meson - Update xfce4-screenshooter.1 - Fix segfault in another location - Fix segfault when app command is NULL (#132) - Improved imgur upload script - Add support to WL_SHM_FORMAT_BGR888 - Check if file was correctly open before using it - Revert "Only restrict file permissions after sucessfully writing them" - Fix blurred preview images at scale >1 - Only restrict file permissions after sucessfully writing them - Translation Updates: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian (Armenia), Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Eastern Armenian, English (Australia), English (United Kingdom), Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingue, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan (post 1500), Persian (Iran), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uyghur
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