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GNOME-SCREENSHOT(1)					   GNOME-SCREENSHOT(1)

NAME
       gnome-screenshot	 -  capture  the  screen, a window, or an user-defined
       area and save the snapshot image to a file.

SYNOPSIS
       gnome-screenshot [ -c ]	[ -w ]	[ -a ]	[ -b ]	[ -B ]	[ -p ]	 [  -d
       SECONDS	 ]  [ -e EFFECT	 ]  [ -i ]  [ -f FILENAME  ]  [ --display DIS‐
       PLAY  ]

DESCRIPTION
       gnome-screenshot is a GNOME  utility  for  taking  screenshots  of  the
       entire  screen,	a  window  or an user-defined area of the screen, with
       optional beautifying border effects.

OPTIONS
       -c, --clipboard
	      Send the grab directly to the clipboard.

       -w, --window
	      Grab the current active window instead of the entire screen.

       -a, --area
	      Grab an area of the screen instead of the entire screen.

       -b, --include-border
	      Include the window border within the screenshot.

       -B, --remove-border
	      Remove the window border from the screenshot.

       -p, --include-pointer
	      Include the pointer with the screenshot.

       -d, --delay=SECONDS,
	      Take the screenshot after the specified delay [in seconds].

       -e, --border-effect=EFFECT,
	      Add an effect to the outside of the screenshot  border.	EFFECT
	      can  be ``shadow'' (adding drop shadow), ``border'' (adding rec‐
	      tangular space around the screenshot) or ``none''	 (no  effect).
	      Default is ``none''.

       -i, --interactive
	      Interactively set options in a dialog.

       -f, --file=FILENAME
	      Save screenshot directly to this file.

       --display=DISPLAY
	      X display to use.

       -?, -h, --help
	      Show a summary of the available options.

       In addition, the usual GTK+ command line options apply.	See the output
       of --help for details.

AUTHOR
       This  manual  page  was	 written   by	Christian   Marillat   <maril‐
       lat@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.

				 May 14, 2013		   GNOME-SCREENSHOT(1)

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