[MAN] gnome-screenshot

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GNOME-SCREENSHOT

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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 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 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''.

-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.

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