Hi Im coming from Windows and really miss a sort of "snipping tool"-replacement. The native screenshot-tool from Zorin17 is really nice but I dont see the way to clip it to the dash board. I dont have a prnt-button on my keyboard and are looking for an easy way to open the tool and do a screenshot. I tried other tools like the gnome screenshot tool but its very clunky to use.
Any ideas how to do this? I really prefer it on the dashboard and not a shortcut. Thanks!
There's this:
gnome-screenshot --file="/home/$USER/Desktop/screenshot.png"
sudo apt search gnome-screenshot
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
gnome-screenshot/focal,now 3.36.0-1ubuntu1 amd64 [installed]
screenshot application for GNOME
If you've got gnome-screenshot installed, you can set it up as a keyboard shortcut in Zorin menu > Settings > Keyboard Shortcuts. Scroll all the way to the bottom, you'll see a + button to add a new keyboard shortcut.
Or this (I don't have ImageMagick installed, though):
import -window root -resize 400x300 -delay 200 screenshot.png
Command 'import' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat # version 1.4+really1.3.35-1ubuntu0.1, or
sudo apt install imagemagick-6.q16 # version 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu11.9
sudo apt install imagemagick-6.q16hdri # version 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu11.9
If you've got ImageMagick installed, you could set that up as a keyboard combination shortcut as described above.
Or this:
scrot screenshot.png
Command 'scrot' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install scrot
You can likewise set that up as a keyboard combination shortcut as described above.
Or you can chain xwd with convert (which purportedly works well with KDE):
xwd -silent -root | convert xwd:- screenshot.png
Command 'convert' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat # version 1.4+really1.3.35-1ubuntu0.1, or
sudo apt install imagemagick-6.q16 # version 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu11.9
sudo apt install imagemagick-6.q16hdri # version 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu11.9
xwd should already be installed:
tput rev;read -p "Command? " in;tput sgr0;whatis $in # Action of a command
Command? xwd
xwd (1) - dump an image of an X window
Or you could do this:
flameshot gui -s -p /home/$USER/Desktop/screenshot.png
flameshot
Command 'flameshot' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install flameshot
Wurstspaghetti, was für ein Nutzername, haha!
Okay, in English. When You look in the Taskbar on the right Side You have the Icons for Speaker, Network and this Stuff. When you click on it You have this little Menu:
When You look to the upper left Corner there You can see the Gear Icon and the Camera Icon. And this Camera Icon is for the Screenshot Mode. Simply click on it and You are in the Screenshot Mode.
Hehe hoffe es hat einen Lacher produziert 
Thank you, I didnt notice the icon. Thats sufficient 
Just a further option is Spectacle. I used it for capturing screenshots of a VM of Zorin 17 for the unofficial Manual. Once installed you can pin it to the dash. Why Spectacle? Well when I set it to take images of a rectangular region that I would know I would need of the same area of screen (e.g., Application pages in Software) it memorises the last rectangle region you chose and even without needing to press the enter key a tool bar appears with many options, the most used one being 'Copy'. You can also configure keyboard shortcuts and you get a delay timer option if needing to take images of application menus.
Does it safe the picture automatically to the clipboard without having to confirm this? Because thats also a feature that I really enjoy.
I will do a brief video in next day or so for you to see what I mean. 
OK, it feels much like trying to extract a tooth in getting a decent video up to Vimeo these days - they say they have a unique tool that automatically displays at the best resolution! Unfortunately I can only get Vimeo to render the mp4 to 540p but at least better than my last upload so here it is. You will see that Spectacle in Plasma 5.27 works much more efficiently than it does in the Gnome Desktop of Zorin.
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