Screenshots, OCR and recording
Press Print. Everything else is a variation on that.
What happens when you press it
The screen freezes first. You are then aiming at a still picture rather than at a moving desktop, which is the difference between catching a menu and watching it close as you reach for it.
Drag a rectangle, or click once on a window — window and monitor outlines are offered as snap targets, so "drag a box around that" becomes "click the thing you meant".
The result goes to two places at once: a PNG in ~/Pictures, and the clipboard. One without the other is lost the moment you copy something else.
A notification appears carrying the shot itself as its icon — so it confirms what was captured, not merely that something was — and offers to open it for annotation.
The modes
| Mode | What it takes |
|---|---|
smart | The default. Freeze, then pick a region or click a window. |
region | A dragged rectangle, nothing else. |
window | The window under the pointer. |
screen | The whole output. |
ocr | Reads the text out of the selection and copies it. |
color | Picks the colour under the pointer and copies the hex. |
record | Starts a screen recording; press again to stop. |
From a terminal:
aphros-capture window
aphros-capture ocrOr from the menu: SUPER + ALT + space → Capture.
OCR
ocr puts the text of whatever you selected on the clipboard. It is the fastest route out of a screenshot someone sent you, an error dialog that won't let you select its own message, or a paused video frame.
Recording
record toggles. Start it, do the thing, run it again to stop; the file lands beside the screenshots. There is no separate stop button to find, because a recording you cannot stop is worse than no recording.
Where things land
- Screenshots and recordings:
~/Pictures - Clipboard: every capture, always, in addition to the file
- Clipboard history:
SUPER + CTRL + V