GNOME-SCREENSHOT(1)

✨ GNOME-SCREENSHOT ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the gnome-screenshot(1) manual page πŸ’– yes it's a real man page, it lives in section 1 of the manual, and it's about to be your new fave.


🌸 NAME 🌸

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. πŸ“Έ


πŸŽ€ SYNOPSIS πŸŽ€

gnome-screenshot [ -c ]  [ -w ]  [ -a ]  [ -b ]  [ -B ]  [ -p ]  [ -d
SECONDS  ]  [ -e EFFECT  ]  [ -i ]  [ -f FILENAME  ]  [ --display
DISPLAY ]

πŸ¦‹ DESCRIPTION πŸ¦‹

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 πŸ‘‘


πŸ’… OPTIONS πŸ’…

  • -c, --clipboard β€” send the grab directly to the clipboard. no file, just straight to the clipboard, obsessed.
  • -w, --window β€” grab the current active window instead of the entire screen.
  • -a, --area β€” grab an area of the screen instead of the entire screen. you pick, she snaps ✨
  • -b, --include-border β€” include the window border within the screenshot. Note: this option is deprecated and window border is always included.
  • -B, --remove-border β€” remove the window border from the screenshot. Note: this option is deprecated and window border is always included.
  • -p, --include-pointer β€” include the pointer with the screenshot. yes the cursor gets its moment too 🫢
  • -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. 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. Note: this option is deprecated and is assumed to be none.
  • -i, --interactive β€” interactively set options in a dialog. she'll ask you what you want, very demure.
  • -f, --file=FILENAME β€” save screenshot directly to this file.
  • --display=DISPLAY β€” X display to use.
  • -?, -h, --help β€” show a summary of the available options.
also!! the usual GTK+ command line options apply. see the output of --help for details, bestie πŸ‘€

πŸ‘‘ AUTHOR πŸ‘‘

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!! πŸŽ€ this is the GNOME-SCREENSHOT(1) manual, dated August 10, 2013, and it ATE. no cap. go take some screenshots, you're gonna slay πŸ’–βœ¨