Ubuntu

Binary package “maim” in ubuntu bionic

  1. Bionic (18.04)
  2. maim

takes screenshots of your desktop

 maim (make image) takes screenshots of your desktop. It has options
 to take only a region, and relies on another program called slop to
 query the user for regions using the graphical interface.
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 maim is command line tool that is supposed to be an improved scrot.

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