QUICK TIPS WITH KSNIP

1 Go native

If you’d like to give ksnip’s own screen capture tool a go, log out of Ubuntu. Click your username followed by the cog in the bottom-right corner, then select Ubuntu on Xorg and log in. Launch ksnip to reveal a New option with five capture types as shown above. It also has its own global shortcuts: use Alt+Shift instead of just Shift. 3 Crop to perfection

Sometimes it’s easier to crop an image after capture. Thankfully, ksnip includes a dedicated Crop tool for this very purpose. After capturing your image, click the button and your image will be enclosed in a bounding box – you can resize this through click and drag, or use the X, Y, W and H fields at the bottom to set it manually. Click Apply when done.

5 Rearrange items

Every annotation you place on your image is treated as a separate, movable object. Click it to select it, where you’ll find you can resize and move it easily. By default, newer labels sit on top of older ones, but if you right-click the currently selected object and open the Arrange sub-menu you can choose how items overlap each other.

2 Resize windows quickly

Want to resize a program window to a specific size before grabbing it? First, install wmctrl ( sudo apt -y install wmctrl ), then open Settings and navigate to Keyboard>View and Customise Shortcuts>Custom Shortcuts. Create your shortcuts using the following command, changing 1280 and 720 to your desired width and height: wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -e 0,200,200,1280,720 .

4 Copy and paste

When you create a new object, ksnip always reverts to its default settings, including font and size. To get around this, select your existing object, right-click it and choose Copy, then right-click where you want the new object to go before choosing Paste. A duplicate will be created for you to modify – if it’s a number, it’ll automatically go up in sequence.

6 Add a watermark

Protect your images with an image-based watermark. Select Options>Settings>Annotator>Watermark and click Update to select your image file, such as a scan of your signature. Ignore the cramped look in the box – the image’s original aspect ratio will be respected when you choose Edit>Add Watermark. A faded copy of the image will be shown, which can be resized and moved.