Take a picture or record a video of what's happening on your screen.
Tiffany Antopolski
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# Screenshots and screencasts

You can take a picture of your screen (a screenshot) or record a video of what's happening on the screen (a screencast). This is useful if you want to show someone how to do something on the computer, for example. Screenshots and screencasts are just normal picture/video files, so you can email them and share them on the web.

# Een schermafdruk maken

Om een afdruk te maken van wat er op uw scherm staat:

Go to the Activities overview and open the Screenshot tool.

In the window that appears, choose what to capture.

You can take a picture of the whole of the screen (Grab the whole desktop), the window that you're currently using (Grab the current window), or an area of the screen you can select by dragging a box around it (Select the area to grab).

Klik op Schermafdruk maken.

Als u Gebied selecteren heeft gekozen, zal de cursor in een kruis veranderen. Sleep een rand om het gebied waarvan u een afdruk wilt maken.

Nu verschijnt het venster Schermafdruk opslaan. Kies waar u de schermafdruk wilt opslaan en klik op Opslaan.

You can also drag and drop the screenshot image into another application, to paste it there, or to files to save it in a folder.

# Make a screencast

You can make a video recording of what is happening on your screen:

Press Control Shift Alt R to start recording what's on your screen.

A red circle is displayed in the bottom right corner of the screen when the recording is in progress.

Once you've finished, press Control Shift Alt R again to stop the recording.

In your Home folder, a file named shell-%d%u-%c.webm will be saved, where %d is the date, %u is a string of letters that makes the file name unique, and %c is a counter that is incremented each time a recording is made within a single session.

You can rename the file as you wish.