Spectacle is a simple application for capturing desktop screenshots. It can capture images of the entire desktop, a single monitor, the currently active window, the window currently under the mouse, or a rectangular region of the screen.

RapiCapWin is not available for Linux but there are some alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Spectacle, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to RapiCapWin and five of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to RapiCapWin are HotShots, KSnapshot, Xfce4-Screenshooter and GNOME Screenshot.
Spectacle is a simple application for capturing desktop screenshots. It can capture images of the entire desktop, a single monitor, the currently active window, the window currently under the mouse, or a rectangular region of the screen.

Hotshots is a screenshot tool with some editing features. It is particularly suitable for writing documentation (as used in the following chapters) but you can use it to highlight some details on a map image or what ever you want.




This application allows you to capture the entire screen, the active window or a selected region. You can set the delay that elapses before the screenshot is taken and the action that will be done with the screenshot: save it to a PNG file, copy it to the clipboard, open it...

GNOME Screenshot is a utility used in the GNOME desktop environment for taking screenshots. It was part of the GNOME Utilities (gnome-utils) package, but was split into its own package for the 3.3.1 version in 2011.
