{"id":39272,"date":"2020-05-02T01:55:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T01:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=39272"},"modified":"2020-05-02T01:55:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T01:55:56","slug":"linux-ubuntu-how-to-get-a-screenshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/linux-ubuntu-how-to-get-a-screenshot\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux: Ubuntu: how to get a screenshot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about Linux: the tutor mentions a neat trick.<\/h2>\n<p>\nWhen you&#8217;re from the 70s (as I am), you might carry mental baggage.<\/p>\n<p>I recall the PrtScr button back from my first days with DOS. I might have used it then. However, I seem to recall sometime in the 2000s, it didn&#8217;t work when I expected it to. From then on the key has been dead to me.\n<\/p>\n<p>Yet, yesterday, I needed a screenshot from this Linux computer, so wondered how to get one. I read that if you press PrtScr, a screenshot will be produced. I did so: believe it or not, I found it there, in my home directory (in my case, not in the Pictures directory; rather, just loose in my home directory).<\/p>\n<p>Whatdayaknow? Sometimes old tricks work&#8230;again:)<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linuxconfig.org\/how-to-take-a-screenshot-on-ubuntu-18-04-bionic-beaver-linux\">linuxconfig.org<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC. \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about Linux: the tutor mentions a neat trick. When you&#8217;re from the 70s (as I am), you might carry mental baggage. I recall the PrtScr button back from my first days with DOS. I might have used it then. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/linux-ubuntu-how-to-get-a-screenshot\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Linux: Ubuntu: how to get a screenshot<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[637],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39272"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39276,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39272\/revisions\/39276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}