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 DIS‐
PLAY ]
DESCRIPTION
gnome-screenshot is a GNOME utility for taking screenshots of the
entire screen, a window or an user-defined area of the screen, with
optional beautifying border effects.
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.
-B, remove-border
Remove the window border from the screenshot.
-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 rec‐
tangular space around the screenshot), ``vintage'' (desaturating
the screenshot slightly, tinting it and adding rectangular space
around it) or ``none'' (no effect). Default is ``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 for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by
others).
Updated by Theppitak Karoonboonyanan , Tom Feiner
, Cosimo Cecchi and others.
August 10, 2013 GNOME-SCREENSHOT(1)