Fast screenshots for Linux, in the spirit of Screenpresso by Learnpulse.
Press Print, pick a region, mark it up, Ctrl+C. Done.
Capture. Annotate. Paste.
wget https://github.com/srcmkr/OxShot/releases/latest/download/oxshot_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./oxshot_amd64.debOther distributions: download the AppImage, make it executable and start it.
- On screen before you notice: the capture overlay is created once and only shown per capture, so it appears within a few dozen milliseconds of pressing Print. The screen freezes; hovering highlights the window under the pointer (click to take it), dragging selects any region, and a pixel magnifier and the arrow keys make it exact.
- Straight into the editor: the capture is saved and on the clipboard at once; the editor opens, you annotate, Ctrl+C copies the result.
- Thirteen annotation tools: arrows (straight, curved, tapered), rectangles, ellipses, text with outline, speech bubbles with a movable tail, numbered steps that count up by themselves (with an optional connector), highlighter, blur and pixelate, magnifier, curly brace, polygon, freehand and images.
- Annotations stay editable: every capture keeps a project file next to it, so arrows and texts can still be moved or changed days later.
- Image operations: non-destructive crop, resize, cutting a strip out of the middle (straight, zigzag or wavy edge), and borders and effects: shadow, rounded corners, torn edges, reflection, grayscale, rotation.
- Color picker: Ctrl+Print freezes the screen with a
round magnifier; a click copies
#RRGGBB. The editor's color menu picks from the screen too and remembers recent colors. - Delayed capture: Ctrl+Shift+Print counts down 3, 5 or 10 seconds without taking the focus, so open menus and tooltips end up in the picture.
- Pastes the way the target wants it: the clipboard offers the image as PNG (chat, mail, image editors), the saved file (file managers, uploads) and its path (terminals) at the same time.
- History: all captures in one grid. Search, copy, rename (a new extension converts the format), move to the trash, drop images in to import them.
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Every release has three files:
| For | File | Then |
|---|---|---|
| Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint | oxshot_<version>_amd64.deb |
sudo apt install ./oxshot_*_amd64.deb |
| Any other distribution | OxShot-<version>-x86_64.AppImage |
chmod +x OxShot-*.AppImage && ./OxShot-*.AppImage |
| By hand | oxshot-<version>-x86_64-linux.tar.gz |
Unpack, start ./oxshot, then Settings → Updates → Install for all users |
OxShot runs in the background with a tray icon. You need a tray that supports StatusNotifierItem (Cinnamon, KDE, XFCE, GNOME with the AppIndicator extension). Settings → System can start it at login and add a menu entry.
New versions are offered in the tray and the settings and installed on request; every file of a release is signed, and only a correctly signed one is installed.
If your desktop already uses Print for its own screenshot tool,
remove that shortcut (Cinnamon: System Settings → Keyboard → Shortcuts) or
bind oxshot capture there instead.
OxShot is developed on X11 (Cinnamon); Wayland is not supported yet.
| Keys (global) | Does |
|---|---|
| capture a region, a window or a monitor | |
| Shift+Print | capture the same region as last time |
| Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Print | capture the monitor under the pointer |
| Ctrl+Shift+Print | capture a region after a countdown |
| Ctrl+Print | pick a color from the screen |
All of them can be changed under Settings → Keyboard shortcuts.
While capturing: click takes the highlighted window, dragging selects a region, the top edge of a monitor takes the whole monitor. Arrow keys move by one pixel (Shift: ten), Space starts and ends a selection, F takes the monitor, A all monitors, M includes the mouse pointer, the mouse wheel zooms the magnifier, H shows help, Esc or a right-click cancels.
In the editor:
| Keys | Does |
|---|---|
| V A R T B N H E P F X I M K | select, arrow, rectangle, text, bubble, number, highlighter, ellipse, polygon, freehand, blur, image, magnifier, brace |
| Ctrl+C, Ctrl+Enter | copy the result; copy and close |
| Ctrl+S, Ctrl+Shift+S | save; save as PNG, JPEG, WebP, BMP, TIFF or .oxshot project |
| Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+Y | undo, redo |
| Ctrl+D, Del, arrow keys | duplicate, delete, nudge the selected object |
| Ctrl+V | paste an image from the clipboard |
| C | crop |
| Ctrl++, Ctrl+-, Ctrl+0, Ctrl+1 | zoom (or text and number size), fit, 100 % |
| Page Up, Page Down | previous, next capture |
While drawing, Ctrl makes squares, circles and 45° angles, Alt takes the color under the pointer; Ctrl+drag duplicates an object, Alt+drag moves only a bubble's box, a number's circle or a magnifier's glass. A right-click goes back to the select tool. Each tool remembers its last style.
From the command line:
oxshot # run in the background (tray, hotkeys)
oxshot capture # capture a region (starts OxShot if needed)
oxshot capture --last|--full # last region, monitor under the pointer
oxshot capture --delay [N] # after N seconds (default from the settings)
oxshot pick # color picker
oxshot open shot.png # open an image or .oxshot project in the editor
oxshot workspace # the history
oxshot settings
oxshot quit # quit (open editors are saved first)Captures go to ~/Pictures/OxShot (your pictures folder), their editable
projects to ~/Pictures/OxShot/.oxshot; settings live in
~/.config/oxshot/settings.json.
OxShot speaks English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian and Chinese (simplified) and follows the system language; it can also be set under Settings → Language. It follows the desktop's light or dark preference, or stays light or dark as set under Settings → Appearance.
This project is written with AI, and I say so openly. It started as a problem I had myself; most of its code is produced by AI coding agents that I direct, drawing on 35 years of building software.
This is augmented coding, not vibe coding. Vibe coding, as Andrej Karpathy coined the term, means accepting whatever the model writes without looking at the code. Augmented coding, as Kent Beck describes it, means directing the AI towards tested, maintainable code and owning the result. The difference is not who types; it is who decides and how the result is checked.
- I decide. Scope, architecture and trade-offs are mine: I make them or sign them off. The AI proposes and implements; it does not get the last word.
- Tests define "works". Automated tests run on every push to the main branch and on every pull request. New features are tried in the real application before they are released, and the bugs found that way are fixed.
- Nothing is hidden. The code, the tests and the history are all here, for anyone to read and judge.
It is 2026. Writing every line by hand is no longer what makes software good; taking responsibility for every decision is.
Bug reports, ideas, translations and pull requests are welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md for building from source, the layout of the code and how releases are made.
OxShot exists because of Screenpresso by Learnpulse, whose capture-edit-paste workflow it follows. It is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Learnpulse. Built with GPUI, the UI framework of the Zed editor, and gpui-component; icons by Lucide (ISC).
Licensed under either of Apache License, Version 2.0 or MIT license at your option. Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.