gnome-screenshot

GNOME-SCREENSHOT(1)                                        GNOME-SCREENSHOT(1)



NAME
       gnome-screenshot  -  capture  the  screen, a window, or an user-defined
       area and save the snapshot image to a file.

SYNOPSIS
       gnome-screenshot [ -w ]  [ -a ]  [ -b ]  [ -B ]  [ -d SECONDS  ]  [  -e
       EFFECT  ]  [ -i ]  [ --display DISPLAY  ]

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 beutifying border effects.

OPTIONS
       -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.

       -d, --delay=SECONDS,
              Take the screenshot after the specified delay [in seconds].

       -e, --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) or ``none'' (no effect).
              Default is ``none''.

       -i, --interactive
              Interactively set options in a dialog.

       --display=DISPLAY
              X display to use.

       -?, -h, --help
              Show a summary of the available options.

       In addition, the usual GTK+ and GNOME command line options apply.   See
       the output of --help for details.

SEE ALSO
       gnome-options(7), gtk-options(7)

AUTHOR
       This   manual   page   was   written   by  Christian  Marillat         lat@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but  may  be  used  by
       others).

       Updated  by Theppitak Karoonboonyanan , Tom Feiner
        and Cosimo Cecchi 



                                 June 28, 2009             GNOME-SCREENSHOT(1)