# Screenshots and markup

> Pictures and recordings of the screen from the keyboard or the capture toolbar, and a pen to mark up a picture before you send it.

Source: https://wolos.org/manual/screenshots

## What it is

Four keys take a picture of the screen at once, and one more opens the capture toolbar, where you choose what to capture (the whole screen, a window, an area, or a recording) and where it goes. After a capture from the toolbar a thumbnail waits in the corner for a few seconds; its pen button opens **Markup**, where you draw on the picture before you save or copy it.

![The capture toolbar: 2 the three capture modes and the two recording modes, 3 the Options menu, 4 the Capture button. The close button is at the far left.](/img/manual/capture-bar-annotated.png)

## Why

A screenshot is usually taken to show someone something, now. So the keys need no setup and no dialog, the picture lands where you will find it (the Desktop), and the common next step, circling the thing you mean, is one click away instead of another app. Only WolOS's own tools can copy the screen without asking; any other app has to ask each time ([Privacy and permissions](/manual/privacy)).

## How

### From the keyboard

| Keys | Does |
|---|---|
| **Shift+Super+3** (or **Print**) | Saves a picture of the whole screen to the Desktop. |
| **Shift+Super+4** | Lets you drag over an area, then saves a picture of it. Esc cancels. |
| **Ctrl+Shift+Super+3** | Copies a picture of the whole screen, no file. |
| **Ctrl+Shift+Super+4** | Copies a picture of the area you drag, no file. |
| **Shift+Super+5** | Opens the capture toolbar. |

A saved picture is named "Screenshot" with the date and time, is also put on the clipboard, and a notification names the folder it went to (for example *Screenshot saved to Desktop*). A copy-only capture says *Copied to clipboard*.

### The capture toolbar

1. **Open it** with **Shift+Super+5**, or the **Screenshot** tile in Control Center. The **Record** tile opens it ready to record the whole screen.
2. **Pick a mode.** From left to right: *Capture Entire Screen*, *Capture Selected Window*, *Capture Selected Portion*, *Record Entire Screen*, *Record Selected Portion*. Hover a button to see its name.
3. **Options** sets where it goes (*Save to*: **Desktop**, **Pictures** or **Clipboard**) and a **Timer** (**None**, 5 or 10 seconds).
4. **Press Capture** (or Return). The button reads **Record** in a recording mode. Esc or the close button leaves without capturing.

Pictures saved to Pictures go to `Pictures/Screenshots`. Recordings go to the Desktop, or to `Movies` when you chose Pictures, and are named "Screen Recording" with the date and time. To stop a recording, start a recording again (the toolbar or the Record tile); a notification says where it was saved.

### Markup

![A picture open in Markup: three pen colours and Undo at the top left, Copy and Save at the top right, and a red and a blue stroke drawn on the picture.](/img/manual/capture-markup.png)

1. **After a capture from the toolbar**, a thumbnail shows at the bottom right for five seconds. Click its pen button.

   ![The thumbnail of a fresh capture at the bottom right of the screen, with a pen button in its corner.](/img/manual/capture-thumbnail.png)

2. **Draw.** Choose **Red**, **Yellow** or **Blue** and drag over the picture. **Undo** takes back the last stroke.
3. **Save** writes a marked-up copy next to the original, named like the original with "(Markup)" added. The original is never changed. **Copy** puts the marked-up picture on the clipboard instead.

## A worked example

Alice wants to show a friend an error message. She presses **Shift+Super+4**, drags a box around the message and lets go: the picture is on her Desktop and on the clipboard. For a longer explanation she presses **Shift+Super+5**, picks the area mode, clicks Capture, then clicks the pen on the thumbnail and circles the right button in red. **Copy** puts the marked-up picture on the clipboard, ready to paste into the chat.

## If something goes wrong

| What you see | What to do |
|---|---|
| Nothing happens after Shift+Super+4 | It is waiting for you to drag over an area. Esc cancels. |
| The toolbar is in the picture | It never should be: it hides before the capture. If a Timer was set, the capture waits that long. |
| No thumbnail after a capture | The thumbnail follows captures from the toolbar that make a file. With *Save to* **Clipboard** there is no file, so no thumbnail; paste the picture instead. |
| A recording does not stop | Start a recording again from the toolbar or the Record tile: that ends the one running and saves it. |
| The shortcuts do something else | Check **Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts**, group *Screenshots*, where you can change them. |