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by noswi 4259 days ago
For a good screenshot utility with a gui, there's xfce4-screenshooter from the xfce desktop suite. It's the bees knees, has the possibility to capture the system cursor (a feature the maim readme was complaining about) and a fine region capturing.
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Yeah, the xfce4-screenshooter tool is fantastic. The only thing that would make it more useful would be if the panel plugin had an option to show a drop-down when clicked, allowing you to select screen, region or window. I always forget my keybindings for screenshots (is it alt? alt-shift?).

It might already have that option but I'm running Debian Stable (Wheezy) on the desktop so am quite far behind the current XFCE release.

Edit: My solution to my suggestion (panel plugin with dropdown) has just been to add a launcher to the panel, starting xfce4-screenshooter. I'll just choose what I want to capture from the window - it's pretty minimal anyway. What a useful application.

You can also map various keyboard shortcut to xfce4-screenshooter -r and stuff. See xfce4-screenshooter --help for details on all the options.