Taking screenshot of GNU/Linux tty (virtual terminal, teletype) needs different kind of tool. If in the X11 environment we depend on X11 and another stuffs, such as using GNOME Screenshot, in the pure tty we can not depend to X11 or another display server. We can use a free software tool like fbcat to take tty screenshots.

Probably you need to take a web page screenshot. You can do that easily on Chrome (Chromium) and Firefox by an extension named Awesome Screenshot. You can take the whole or part of page. You can annotate it with line or text and color after taking. I will show you how to install and use it.

Recently, I wrote a post about a screenshot application which has a basic editing tool called HotShots. The application was very handy especially if you are a new users which prefer using GUI application to do such task. There is another way to take screenshot in Ubuntu, especially for those who prefer working with shell script. Ubuntu has a command line application called scrot which allows us to take screenshot from shell script. This tool is very handy, as it's a command line application, you can integrate it in a shell script easily. In this tutorial, I'd like to show you how to take a screenshot at regular interval using scrot.

HotShots is yet another screenshot tool for Ubuntu. It comes with some editing features which allows us to edit the picture taken with HotShots. The applications is suitable for creating documentation, tutorial, or just capturing a unique moment which happens on the screen. HotShots is written in Qt, so is should be able to run on Windows and Linux computers.