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scrot — Screen capture utility. More information: <https://manned.org/scrot>.

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Problem

How to use the scrot command: Screen capture utility. More information: <https://manned.org/scrot>.

Solution

scrot — Screen capture utility. More information: <https://manned.org/scrot>.

Capture a screenshot and save it to the current directory with the current date as the filename:

scrot

Capture a screenshot and save it as capture.png:

scrot capture.png

Capture a screenshot interactively:

scrot {{[-s|--select]}}

Capture a screenshot interactively without exiting on keyboard input, press <Esc> to exit:

scrot {{[-is|--ignorekeyboard --select]}}

Capture a screenshot interactively delimiting the region with a colored line:

scrot {{[-s|--select]}} {{[-l|--line]}} color={{x11_color|rgb_color}}

Capture a screenshot from the currently focused window:

scrot {{[-u|--focused]}}

Display a countdown of 10 seconds before taking a screenshot:

scrot {{[-c|--count]}} {{[-d|--delay]}} 10

Code Snippets

Capture a screenshot and save it to the current directory with the current date as the filename

scrot

Capture a screenshot and save it as `capture.png`

scrot capture.png

Capture a screenshot interactively

scrot {{[-s|--select]}}

Capture a screenshot interactively without exiting on keyboard input, press `<Esc>` to exit

scrot {{[-is|--ignorekeyboard --select]}}

Capture a screenshot interactively delimiting the region with a colored line

scrot {{[-s|--select]}} {{[-l|--line]}} color={{x11_color|rgb_color}}

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tldr-pages: linux/scrot

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