Linshot is a Greenshot-inspired, lightweight, and incredibly fast screenshot application designed natively for Linux distributions.
It provides a rich set of capture modes and a fully-featured annotation editor to quickly mark up your screenshots before saving or copying them.
- Capture Modes: Region (Drag), Target Window (Click), Fullscreen, and Repeat Last Region.
- Rich Annotation Editor: Draw shapes (Rectangle, Ellipse, Line, Arrow), Freehand, add Text, Highlight, Blur/Pixelate, or add Step-Counter stamps.
- High-DPI Support: Crisp text and images on scaled monitors.
- Global Hotkeys: Works instantly, even when the application is minimized to the system tray.
- Exports: Save to file (PNG, JPG, BMP), Copy to Clipboard, open in external applications, or instantly upload.
Linshot is distributed as a single Debian package (.deb). You do not need to compile any code or worry about build dependencies.
You must be running a 64-bit Debian-based Linux distribution:
- Ubuntu (or Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc.)
- Linux Mint
- Kali Linux
- Pop!_OS
- Debian
Go to the Releases page and download linshot.deb.
Open your terminal and run the following command in the directory where you downloaded the file:
sudo apt install ./linshot.debUsing
apt installensures that any underlying dependencies (like Qt5 and X11 Extras) are automatically downloaded and installed natively by your system.
You can launch Linshot directly from your system's Application Menu, or by typing linshot & in your terminal.
The application sits quietly in your system tray, ready whenever you press your capture hotkeys (e.g., PrintScreen).
Created for the Linux community as a lightweight, native alternative to Windows screenshot utilities.