GNOME-SCREENSHOT(1)
β¨ GNOME-SCREENSHOT β¨
okay bestie, welcome to the gnome-screenshot(1) manual page π yes it's a real man page, it lives in section 1 of the manual, and it's about to be your new fave.
πΈ NAME πΈ
gnome-screenshot β capture the screen, a window, or an user-defined area and save the snapshot image to a file.
like. it takes pics of your screen. that's the whole vibe. πΈ
π SYNOPSIS π
gnome-screenshot [ -c ] [ -w ] [ -a ] [ -b ] [ -B ] [ -p ] [ -d
SECONDS ] [ -e EFFECT ] [ -i ] [ -f FILENAME ] [ --display
DISPLAY ]
π¦ DESCRIPTION π¦
gnome-screenshot is a GNOME utility for taking screenshots of the entire screen, a window or a user-defined area of the screen.
that's it. that's the whole job. she's a screenshot girlie and she's good at it. main character energy fr fr π
π OPTIONS π
-c,--clipboardβ send the grab directly to the clipboard. no file, just straight to the clipboard, obsessed.-w,--windowβ grab the current active window instead of the entire screen.-a,--areaβ grab an area of the screen instead of the entire screen. you pick, she snaps β¨-b,--include-borderβ include the window border within the screenshot. Note: this option is deprecated and window border is always included.-B,--remove-borderβ remove the window border from the screenshot. Note: this option is deprecated and window border is always included.-p,--include-pointerβ include the pointer with the screenshot. yes the cursor gets its moment too π«Ά-d,--delay=SECONDS,β take the screenshot after the specified delay [in seconds].-e,--border-effect=EFFECT,β add an effect to the outside of the screenshot border.EFFECTcan beshadow(adding drop shadow),border(adding rectangular space around the screenshot),vintage(desaturating the screenshot slightly, tinting it and adding rectangular space around it) ornone(no effect). Default isnone. Note: this option is deprecated and is assumed to benone.-i,--interactiveβ interactively set options in a dialog. she'll ask you what you want, very demure.-f,--file=FILENAMEβ save screenshot directly to this file.--display=DISPLAYβ X display to use.-?,-h,--helpβ show a summary of the available options.
also!! the usual GTK+ command line options apply. see the output of --help for details, bestie π
π AUTHOR π
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.
and that's the whole page bestie!! π this is the GNOME-SCREENSHOT(1) manual, dated August 10, 2013, and it ATE. no cap. go take some screenshots, you're gonna slay πβ¨
π¦ where this page comes from
- alpine 3.24: gnome-screenshot-doc 41.0-r1 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- centos-stream 9: gnome-screenshot 40.0-7.el9 Β· GPLv2+
- debian bookworm: gnome-screenshot 41.0-2 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- debian trixie: gnome-screenshot 41.0-3 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- fedora 43: gnome-screenshot 41.0-12.fc43 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- fedora 44: gnome-screenshot 41.0-13.fc44 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- nixos 26.05: gnome-screenshot 41.0
- nixpkgs unstable: gnome-screenshot 41.0
- opensuse-leap 16.0: gnome-screenshot 41.0-160000.2.2 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- opensuse-leap 16.0: gnome-screenshot 41.0-160000.2.2 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- opensuse-leap 16.0: gnome-screenshot 41.0-160000.2.2 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- opensuse-leap 16.0: gnome-screenshot 41.0-160000.2.2 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu jammy: gnome-screenshot 41.0-2 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu noble: gnome-screenshot 41.0-2build2 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu questing: gnome-screenshot 41.0-3
- ubuntu resolute: gnome-screenshot 41.0-3build1 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu stonking: gnome-screenshot 41.0-3build1 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
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