MATE-SCREENSHOT(1)

📦 version 1.28.3, in alpine 3.24, arch rolling, debian bookworm, debian trixie, epel 9, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixpkgs unstable, opensuse-leap 16.0, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, meet mate-screenshot — she captures your screen, a window, or a lil user-defined area, and saves that snapshot image straight to a file. periodt. ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

mate-screenshot [ -w ] [ -a ] [ -b ] [ -B ] [ -d SECONDS ] [ -e EFFECT ] [ -i ] [ --display DISPLAY ]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

mate-screenshot is a MATE utility, and her whole job is taking screenshots — of the entire screen, of a window, or of an user-defined area of the screen. and yes, she can add optional beautifying border effects on top, because we love a glow-up. 💅

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -w, --window — grab the current active window instead of the entire screen. main character energy only. 👑
  • -a, --area — grab an area of the screen instead of the entire screen. you pick the vibe, she captures it. 🎀
  • -b, --include-border — include the window border within the screenshot. keep the frame, it's part of the fit. 🫶
  • -B, --remove-border — remove the window border from the screenshot. no frame, just the content, clean. ✨
  • -d, --delay=SECONDS — take the screenshot after the specified delay [in seconds]. yes, you get time to pose. 💖
  • -e, --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) or `none` (no effect). Default is `none`. lowkey iconic options tbh. 🌈
  • -i, --interactive — interactively set options in a dialog. she'll ask, you'll answer, it's a whole conversation. 💬
  • --display=DISPLAY — X display to use. 🖥️
  • -?, -h, --help — show a summary of the available options. the cheat sheet, fr fr. 📝
also!! in addition, the usual GTK+ and MATE command line options apply. see the output of --help for details. iykyk. 💜

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

💌 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> and Cosimo Cecchi <cosimoc@gnome.org> 💖

and that's the whole page, bestie — written way back on June 28, 2009, and it lives in the MATE-SCREENSHOT(1) manual section. slay, go take some screenshots. 💅✨🎀

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