Lightscreen

Name: Lightscreen
Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)

Lightscreen is a lightweight screen shooting application for Windows and linux used to automate the process of saving and cataloging screenshots.

Free • Open Source
Screenshot Capture Tool

Windows
Linux
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Avg rating of 4.5 (2)| 2 comments

What is Lightscreen?

Lightscreen is a simple tool to automate the tedious process of saving and cataloging screenshots, it operates as a hidden background process that is invoked with one (or multiple) hotkeys and then saves a screenshot file to disk according to the user's preferences. Now, in the new version, you can upload all your screenshots automatically onto Imgur. A capture's thumbnail is a rather good feature of this utility.

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Lightscreen Screenshots

Resulting window of "Pick window" capture method

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Lightscreen Features

Ad-freeLightscreen doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
PortableLightscreen can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.

Lightscreen information

Developed byChristian Kaiser
LicensingOpen Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.
Written in
C++
RatingAverage rating of 4.5
Alternatives119 alternatives listed

Supported Languages

English

GitHub repository

597 Stars
84 Forks
38 Open Issues
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Lightscreen, and it has gotten 65 likes

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davidmbusto

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Top positive comment• ago

I decided on this app because I needed a simple and straightforward tool to allow clients -and myself in old computers- to capture screenshots every-time there's a problem. This tool is fantastic, so light, so fast, and free software.

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MIodrag09

Comment• ago

How the hell is it installed? I'm kinda new to Linux

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CaptaPraelium

Linux distributions usually use a 'package manager' to install applications. Think of it like the windows store, but everything is truly free.

Depending on your particular choice of Linux, the package manager will have a different name, so it's best to run a quick search to find out what yours is called, for example search for 'ubuntu package manager' if you are using Ubuntu Linux.

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It's not really as powerful as ShareX, but it's literally an exact replica of Lightshot from Windows, which is good.

Positive comment• ago

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ShareX

Guest

Excepted I didn't find an option to upload to SXCU domains, it works fine, and is very customisable, way more than the other apps listed here

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ShareX

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Lightscreen platform details

Windows

All 32-bit Windows (95/98/2000/XP/Vista)

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