What should I use for screenshots to upload to forums, and for cropping?

What should I use for screenshots to upload to forums, and for cropping? I want minimal (zero if possible) info about my system divulged during the process.

Originally Posted by linux-man What should I use for screenshots to upload to forums, and for cropping? I want minimal (zero if possible) info about my system divulged during the process.

Here's a great web search to get you going:
https://www.startpage.com/do/search?...load+to+forums
Note that I basically took your thread title and prepended "linux".

About your 2nd sentence: I am aware of no application that would do this automatically. I use GIMP to remove sensitive info.

If it's just system info you should use the command line inxi program. I believe it has a sterilize option so that it won't post anything it shouldn't, like mac addresses. This is the result of

inxi -Fz

System:
  Kernel: 5.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 
  Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: NCSTECH product: CT1-A402 v: N/A serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: P8H61-M LE/CSM v: Rev x.0x serial: <filter> 
  BIOS: American Megatrends v: 4501 date: 05/10/2013 
CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-3770 bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  L2 cache: 8 MiB 
  Speed: 3703 MHz min/max: 1600/3900 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3703 2: 3693 
  3: 3678 4: 3703 5: 3701 6: 3713 7: 3744 8: 3756 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590] 
  driver: amdgpu v: kernel 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: amdgpu,ati 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1360x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Radeon RX 570 Series (POLARIS10 DRM 3.44.0 
  5.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 LLVM 11.0.1) 
  v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.5 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio 
  driver: snd_hda_intel 
  Device-2: AMD Ellesmere HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 470/480 / 570/580/590] 
  driver: snd_hda_intel 
  Device-3: Corsair CORSAIR VOID ELITE Wireless Gaming Dongle type: USB 
  driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid 
  Device-4: Logitech Webcam C270 type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  driver: r8169 
  IF: enp4s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL88x2bu [AC1200 Techkey] type: USB driver: rtl88x2bu 
  IF: wlxb44bd62d850f state: up mac: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Broadcom BCM20702A0 Bluetooth 4.0 type: USB driver: btusb 
  Message: Required tool hciconfig not installed. Check --recommends 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 2.16 TiB used: 648.69 GiB (29.4%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37120G size: 111.79 GiB 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Crucial model: CT250MX500SSD1 size: 232.89 GiB 
  ID-3: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: Western Digital model: WD Elements 25A2 
  size: 1.82 TiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 29.36 GiB used: 9.48 GiB (32.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-3 
  ID-2: /home size: 195.8 GiB used: 158.64 GiB (81.0%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/dm-1 
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 2 GiB used: 107.8 MiB (5.3%) 
  dev: /dev/dm-2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 57.0 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 42.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 266 
Info:
  Processes: 297 Uptime: 10m Memory: 15.6 GiB used: 3.26 GiB (20.9%) 
  Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.01

Screenshots is a Windows thing. Microsoft assumes everyone has the bandwidth to burn on looking at screenshots. Not everyone does in the world. Screenshots are rarely as helpful as command line output anyway.

flameshot is a great screenshot tool

What should I use for screenshots to upload to forums, and for cropping?

scrot -s

Drag the cross over the part that you want to capture to .png.

Example:
https://0x0.st/oawr.png

apt-get install scrot

lib1_1.2.4-13_amd64.deb  Temporary failure resolving 'mirrors.aliyun.com'
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

What should I do now to install Scrot?

Whats a pipeline?
How to install Scrot

Originally Posted by jmgibson1981 If it's just system info you should use the command line inxi program. I believe it has a sterilize option so that it won't post anything it shouldn't, like mac addresses.

I assume <filter> means its sterilized the serial number, any idea what "v" and "WIN" stand for?

serial: <filter>
  Brand name model: xxxx v: xxxxxxxxx WIN 1234567890

Originally Posted by jmgibson1981 Screenshots is a Windows thing. Microsoft assumes everyone has the bandwidth to burn on looking at screenshots. Not everyone does in the world. Screenshots are rarely as helpful as command line output anyway.

Can we apply command line inxi program to take screenshots within the desktop GUI too?