1. NAME

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

2. SYNOPSIS



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

3. 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.

4. 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.
  • \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.

5. SEE ALSO

6. 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 <> and Cosimo Cecchi <>