GNOME-SCREENSHOT
Section: (1)
Updated: August 10, 2013
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NAME
gnome-screenshot - capture the screen, a window, or an user-defined area and save the snapshot image to a file.
SYNOPSIS
gnome-screenshot [ -c ] [ -w ] [ -a ] [ -b ] [ -B ] [ -p ] [ -d SECONDS ] [ -e EFFECT ] [ -i ] [ -f FILENAME ] [ --display DISPLAY ]
DESCRIPTION
gnome-screenshot is a GNOME utility for taking
screenshots of the entire screen, a window or a user-defined area of the screen.
OPTIONS
- -c, --clipboard
-
Send the grab directly to the clipboard.
- -w, --window
-
Grab the current active window instead of the entire
screen.
- -a, --area
-
Grab an area of the screen instead of the entire screen.
- -b, --include-border
-
Include the window border within the screenshot. Note: This option is deprecated
and window border is always included.
- -B, --remove-border
-
Remove the window border from the screenshot. Note: This option is deprecated
and window border is always included.
- -p, --include-pointer
-
Include the pointer with the screenshot.
- -d, --delay=SECONDS,
-
Take the screenshot after the specified delay [in seconds].
- -e, --border-effect=EFFECT,
-
Add an effect to the outside of the screenshot border.
EFFECT can be ``shadow''
(adding drop shadow), ``border'' (adding rectangular
space around the screenshot), ``vintage'' (desaturating
the screenshot slightly, tinting it and adding
rectangular space around it) or ``none'' (no effect).
Default is ``none''. Note: This option is deprecated
and is assumed to be ``none''.
- -i, --interactive
-
Interactively set options in a dialog.
- -f, --file=FILENAME
-
Save screenshot directly to this file.
- --display=DISPLAY
-
X display to use.
- -?, -h, --help
-
Show a summary of the available options.
In addition, the usual GTK+ command line options apply.
See the output of --help for details.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org> for
the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
Updated by Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
<thep@linux.thai.net>, Tom Feiner <feiner.tom@gmail.com>, Cosimo Cecchi <cosimoc@gnome.org> and others.