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gnome-screenshot — Capture the screen, a window, or a user-defined area and save the image to a file. More information:

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Problem

How to use the gnome-screenshot command: Capture the screen, a window, or a user-defined area and save the image to a file. More information: <https://manned.org/gnome-screenshot>.

Solution

gnome-screenshot — Capture the screen, a window, or a user-defined area and save the image to a file. More information: <https://manned.org/gnome-screenshot>.

Take a screenshot and save it to the default location, normally ~/Pictures:

gnome-screenshot

Take a screenshot and save it to the named file location:

gnome-screenshot {{[-f|--file]}} {{path/to/file}}

Take a screenshot and save it to the clipboard:

gnome-screenshot {{[-c|--clipboard]}}

Take a screenshot after the specified number of seconds:

gnome-screenshot {{[-d|--delay]}} {{5}}

Launch the GNOME Screenshot GUI:

gnome-screenshot {{[-i|--interactive]}}

Take a screenshot of the current window and save it to the specified file location:

gnome-screenshot {{[-w|--window]}} {{[-f|--file]}} {{path/to/file}}

Take a screenshot after the specified number of seconds and save it to the clipboard:

gnome-screenshot {{[-d|--delay]}} {{10}} {{[-c|--clipboard]}}

Display version:

gnome-screenshot --version

Code Snippets

Take a screenshot and save it to the default location, normally `~/Pictures`

gnome-screenshot

Take a screenshot and save it to the named file location

gnome-screenshot {{[-f|--file]}} {{path/to/file}}

Take a screenshot and save it to the clipboard

gnome-screenshot {{[-c|--clipboard]}}

Take a screenshot after the specified number of seconds

gnome-screenshot {{[-d|--delay]}} {{5}}

Launch the GNOME Screenshot GUI

gnome-screenshot {{[-i|--interactive]}}

Context

tldr-pages: linux/gnome-screenshot

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