Lazy Ubuntu

Gscreendump is a feature powerful screenshot taking tool. With Gscreendump, you can take screenshots of application windows, desktop, buttons, scrollbars, selected rectangular areas of screen and webpages. In addition, Gscreendump can also manipulate screenshots via ImageMagick.

How to install Gscreendump on Ubuntu

To install Gscreendump on Ubuntu, you can download deb package of Gscreendump from here. Then open your terminal window and execute this command:

$ sudo dpkg -i gscreendump_0.2_i386.deb

For x86_64:

$ sudo dpkg -i gscreendump_0.2_amd64_jaunty.deb

If you can’t run Gscreendump and see the following errors:


gscreendump: error while loading shared libraries: libWand.so.10: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
gscreendump: error while loading shared libraries: libMagick.so.10: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


Then you can execute these commands to fix above errors:


cd /usr/lib
sudo ln -s libMagickWand.so.1.0.0 libWand.so.10
sudo ln -s libMagickCore.so.1.0.0 libMagick.so.10


Using Gscreendump

1. Run Gscreendump by clicking Applications → Accessories → Take and manipulate screenshots menu item.
2. For example, to take a screenshot of a selected window, you can click Window button in toolbar.