{"id":33088,"date":"2020-12-17T12:17:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T12:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=33088"},"modified":"2020-12-17T12:17:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T12:17:09","slug":"ksnip-screenshot-tool-1-8-0-released-alternative-shutter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/12\/ksnip-screenshot-tool-1-8-0-released-alternative-shutter\/","title":{"rendered":"Ksnip Screenshot Tool 1.8.0 Released as Good Alternative to Shutter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ksnip250.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-33089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ksnip250.png 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ksnip250-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ksnip screenshot tool released version 1.8.0 a few days ago with many great new features and improvements, making it more powerful.<\/p>\n<p>Ksnip is a free open-source Qt based screenshot tool with editing features. It runs in Window, Mac OS, and Linux (both X and Wayland). As Shutter is not in active development, it&#8217;s getting more and more issues due to old Gnome dependency libraries. And Ksnip is a great alternative.<\/p>\n<p>Ksnip 1.8.0 added ability to <b>pin screenshots<\/b> in frameless windows that stay in foreground. The feature was ported from Flameshot. Without saving a screenshot, the app <b>&#8220;Options&#8221; menu<\/b> offers &#8220;Pin&#8221; option to set it in foreground, and it will disappear with a double click on it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ksnip-pin-screenshot.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"369\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33090\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ksnip-pin-screenshot.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ksnip-pin-screenshot-450x277.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The new release also added new and improved editing tools, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Add pixelate image area tool<\/li>\n<li>Zoom in and out<\/li>\n<li>Add window effects: Drop shawdow, Grayscale, Border<\/li>\n<li>Add numeric pointer with arrow annotation item.<\/li>\n<li>Add interface for adding custom tab context menu actions.<\/li>\n<li>Add text pointer annotation item. <\/li>\n<li>Add text pointer with arrow annotation item.<\/li>\n<li>Add option to automatically switching to select tool after drawing item.<\/li>\n<li>Edit Text box with double click.<\/li>\n<li>Resize elements while keeping aspect ratio.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ksnip-new-editing-tools.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"349\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33091\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ksnip-new-editing-tools.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ksnip-new-editing-tools-450x262.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are also improved screenshot tabs including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Add save and save as options to context menu of a screenshot tab.<\/li>\n<li>Add open directory, copy path to clipboard in saved tabs&#8217; context menu.<\/li>\n<li>Add option to delete saved images both from Edit menu or tab context menu.<\/li>\n<li>Allow rename saved screenshot images both from Edit menu or tab context menu.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other features include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Add unity \/ integration tests.<\/li>\n<li>Add brew cask package for Mac uses love homebrew.<\/li>\n<li>Add image quality option in settings page.<\/li>\n<li>Add support for cross-platform wayland screenshots using xdg-desktop-portal.<\/li>\n<li>Add support for loading image from stdin.<\/li>\n<li>Add screenshot options as application actions to desktop file. So that you can add Ksnip to desktop keyboard shortcuts to launch a screen, window, or area shot.<\/li>\n<li>Make hiding main window during screenshot optional.<\/li>\n<li>Open several files at once in tabs.<\/li>\n<li>Allow modifying selected rectangle before making screenshot.<\/li>\n<li>Option to keep main window hidden after a taking screenshot.<\/li>\n<li>Add new options in system tray indicator menu.<\/li>\n<li>Upload multiple stickers at once.<\/li>\n<li>Allow removing imgur account.<\/li>\n<li>Bug-fixes and other improvements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Download \/ Install Ksnip:<\/h3>\n<p>The software offers official binary packages in the github releases page:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href='https:\/\/github.com\/ksnip\/ksnip\/releases' class='arconix-button-flat arconix-button-large arconix-button-tan' target=\"_blank\" >Download Ksnip<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For Ubuntu Linux, you can grab the <b>.appimage<\/b> package, make it executable in file &#8220;Properties&#8221; window, and finally right-click and select run it to launch the tool.<\/p>\n<p>You can also download the <b>.deb<\/b> package. And install it either via Gdebi package installer, or by running command in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt install .\/Downloads\/ksnip-1.8.0.deb<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/apt-ksnip180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"211\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33092\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/apt-ksnip180.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/apt-ksnip180-450x158.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ksnip screenshot tool released version 1.8.0 a few days ago with many great new features and improvements, making it more powerful. Ksnip is a free open-source Qt based screenshot tool with editing features. It runs in Window, Mac OS, and Linux (both X and Wayland). As Shutter is not in active development, it&#8217;s getting more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1573],"class_list":["post-33088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-screenshot-tool"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}