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But \"no other screenshooter can capture the mouse pointer\" is flat out wrong. gnome-capture comes with Ubuntu\u002FDebian and has options not only to…",{"value":63,"source":52,"evidence":64},"Linux users, especially those doing test automation and scripting",[65,69],{"id":66,"by":67,"text":68},"8463873","hpaavola","Thank you. I do quite a lot of test automation and in many cases I want take screenshot of either the application we are testing or the whole desktop when ever test fails. On…",{"id":70,"by":71,"text":72},"8464965","Zikes","What are the preferred tools for things like recording screencasts?",{"value":74,"source":52,"evidence":75},"Better screenshot tool with cursor capture and scripting, compared with scrot and import",[76,80],{"id":77,"by":78,"text":79},"8463680","peterlvilim","Great readme explaining why to use this over scrot (the tool I use atm) and others. 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I don't think of program being unable to do something as an improvement, whatever philosophy might it be and I haven't experienced any glitches with scrot. More than…",{"value":130,"source":52,"evidence":131},"No built-in exec or naming features, handled by shell instead",[132],{"id":133,"by":56,"text":134},"8463994","> maim has no --exec or naming features. This is because maim follows the unix philosophy of \"do one thing and do it well\". 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