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Depending on window managers you use, keyboard shortcuts will wary. We’ll take a look at the some ways to capture screen-shots on gnome,kde.

For gnome:
1. You can use gnome-screenshot.
2. You can use printscrn as well and paste the clipboard image in GIMP.
3. Use screen-shooter
4. fbshot
5. Electric eyes

For KDE

1. You can invoke KSnapshot by going to the K menu and choosing Graphics > KSnapshot or pressing Alt-F2 and typing ksnapshot.
2. You can use printscrn as well and paste the clipboard image in GIMP.

You can use software like shutter for screen capture on any window manager. It comes with lot of features that you can find very handy.

If you wish to use new fonts on ubuntu machine then type fonts:// in nautilus browser. But drag-and-drop in nautilus browser will not work and error will be thrown. To work around this, go to your “Home” folder. Now create “.fonts” folder in your home directory. After creating this it’ll be not visible at first but it’s still there.Open your home folder in the file browser, and select View>Show Hidden Files. You’ll see the .fonts folder, just created earlier. You can copy TTF font file into this folder and it will become available immediately to applications after they are restarted.

Types of fonts you can use on ubuntu:

1) Microsoft Fonts ( Cleartype fonts )
To use Microsoft fonts, you’ve to install “msttcorefonts” and for that you’ve to enable multiverse repository.

2) Liberation fonts
( Liberation fonts )
To install the liberation fonts, you’ve to download package “ttf-liberation“.

You can adjust the font rendering options in System >Preferences >Appearance >Fonts.

Sometimes you need to know the installed version of ubuntu. If you’re new to ubuntu, it’ll be confusing for you to where to look for it. Run this command to find the installed version of Ubuntu.

cat /etc/lsb-release

or

cat /etc/issue

or

lsb_release -a

Man command “uname” can be used to find out about the operating system version installed.

uname -o

This will print the information about the operating system. Alternative method is to look for the version by following this :

System > About Ubuntu