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gnome-screenshot

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

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

       -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.

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

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

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

       --display=DISPLAY
	      X display to use.

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

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

SEE ALSO

       gnome-options(7), gtk-options(7)

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>

								   June 28, 2009					       GNOME-SCREENSHOT(1)