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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="guide" id="screen-shot-record">
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<link type="guide" xref="tips"/>
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<desc>Take a picture or record a video of what's happening on your screen.</desc>
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<revision pkgversion="3.0" date="2011-04-01" status="final"/>
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<revision pkgversion="3.0" version="3.0.1" date="2011-04-06" status="outdated"/>
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<credit type="author">
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<name>Tiffany Antopolski</name>
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<email>tiffany.antopolski@gmail.com</email>
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<title>Screenshots and screencasts</title>
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<p>You can take a picture of your screen (a <em>screenshot</em>) or record a video of what's happening on the screen (a <em>screencast</em>). This is useful if you want to show someone how to do something on the computer, for example; screenshots and screencasts are just normal picture/video files, so you can email them and share them on the web.</p>
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<section id="screenshot">
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<title>Take a screenshot</title>
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<p>To take a picture of what's on your screen:</p>
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<p>Go to the <gui>Activities</gui> overview and open the <app>Screenshot</app> tool.</p>
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<p>In the window that appears, choose what to take a picture of.</p>
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<p>You can take a picture of the whole of the screen (<gui>Grab the whole desktop</gui>), just the window that you're currently using (<gui>Grab the current window</gui>), or you can select an area of the screen by dragging a box around it (<gui>Select the area to grab</gui>).</p>
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Click <gui>Take Screenshot</gui>.
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If you selected <gui>Select area to grab</gui>, the cursor will change into a cross. Click and drag the area you want for the screenshot.
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The <gui>Save Screenshot</gui> window will now appear. Choose where to save the screenshot and click <gui>Save</gui>.</p>
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<section id="screencast">
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<title>Make a screencast</title>
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You can make a video recording of what is happening on your screen:
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<p>Press <keyseq><key>Control</key><key>Shift</key><key>Alt</key><key>R</key></keyseq> to start recording what's on your screen.</p>
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<p>A red circle is displayed in the bottom right corner of the screen when the recording is in progress.</p>
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<p>Once you've finished, press <keyseq><key>Control</key><key>Shift</key><key>Alt</key><key>R</key></keyseq> again to stop the recording.</p>
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<p>A file named <file>shell-%d%u-%c.webm</file> will be saved in your Home folder.</p>
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<p>In the file name, %d is the date, %u is a string of letters that makes the file name unique, and %c is a counter that is incremented each time a recording is made within a single session.</p>
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<p>You can <link xref="files-rename">rename</link> the file as you wish.</p>