Man page 1 : gnome-screenshot

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

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

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.

• -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.
• \fB-d, --delay=SECONDS\fB,
      Take the screenshot after the specified delay [in seconds].
• \fB-e, --effect=EFFECT\fB,
      Add an effect to the outside of the screenshot border. EFFECT can be ``shadow'' (adding drop shadow), ``border'' (adding rectangular space around the screenshot) or ``none'' (no effect). Default is ``none''.
• -i, --interactive
      Interactively set options in a dialog.
• \fB--display=DISPLAY\fB
      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.

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

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 <> and Cosimo Cecchi <>