Well, if not Snagit which however is proprietary and would cost you $49.95 on windows, there is something similar called as KSnapShot, which is available for Linux. Not as loaded as Snagit in terms of features, however it’s quite handful than trying to take a screenshot from the terminal. Taking screenshots from terminal requires you to remember commands and so on. Not a very good for a novice linux user to use terminal for taking screenshot.

Let’s quickly take a look at how this utility looks like:

The big question now is how do you get KSnapShot. Yes, by default it doesn’t come with Ubuntu as Ubuntu is a Gnome based Linux Distro. The easiest way to get it is by using synaptic package manager.

System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager

Once you have opened Synaptic, just search for KSnapShot and install it. By default it’ll get installed under the graphics