linux.dsplabs.com.au

Screen capture in Linux is made simple by using Gnome tool called gnome-screenshot. An example screenshot produced using gnome-screenshot is shown below.

To take a screenshot simply press the print screen key on your keyboard. This will pop-up a dialog box where you can specify the filename as well as location to where the screenshot will be saved to. Note that the print screen key is often labelled as Print Scrn or PrtSc.

The gnome-screenshot can also be invoked from shell by typing

gnome-screenshot  # ©2007 dsplabs.com.au

plus any of the following options which configure gnome-screenshot`s behaviour:

   --window                   Takes a screenshot of the window that has focus.
   --delay=seconds            Takes a screenshot after the specified number of seconds.
   --include-border           Takes a screenshot including the border of the screen.
   --border-effect=shadow     Takes a screenshot and adds a shadow bevel effect around it.
   --border-effect=border     Takes a screenshot and adds a border effect around it.
   --help                     Displays the options for the command.

Note that the above information is taken directly form Yelp (the Gnome's help manual).

If you hold the Alt key while pressing the print screen key the screenshot will only include the current window (possibly without window decorations), as shown below.

Whereas without the Alt key the entire desktop, task bar as well as any other open windows (if any) are also captured.

Note that while gnome-screenshot is a Gnome tool, it still works fine for me under KDE in Fedora Linux. However, you may need to have other Gnome components and libraries installed to run it in non-Gnome window manager.

Did you find the above information useful and interesting? If so, please support this site by using the blog directory links at the bottom of this page. Thanks for your support!

If you have any Linux related problems or questions then please feel free to post them on our Linux Forums: http://linux.dsplabs.com.au/forums.

This entry was posted on Friday, October 19th, 2007 at 4:36 am and is filed under Display, Tools, Linux. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.