How to take a screenshot in Linux

This is a hard topic to cover as it will depend which desktop you have chosen to use. We will show Ubuntu here as a popular desktop but also Gnome and KDE should present you with a dialogue when pressing the 'PrtScn' button.

When the dialogue appears name the file and choose 'Save'

Article ID: 371, Created On: 8/24/2011, Modified: 12/15/2011