Is there an equivalent of the Window's Print Screen + Paste (or better yet the Mac OS Cmd+Shift+4, Space) in gnome?
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Gnome should have screenshot abilities built already in.
However, the default trigger is the Print key, which your keyboard may lack. You can remap this shortcut with gnome-keybinding-properties.
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By default, "Take a screenshot of a window" is Ctrl-Print. This combination failed to work reliably for me, however, so I changed it. – badp Nov 3 '10 at 10:08
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gnome-screenshot --interactiveyou can select the option to select an area instead of the whole screen or window. – Gert Jan 6 '11 at 21:17 -
1Even better is
gnome-screenshot -a(which instead of openning the choosing window, goes for select an area immediately). I'm struggling to make this default though. – Augustin Riedinger Mar 21 '16 at 17:36
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Shift+PrtScrn will do the job. A dialog appears on screen allowing you to select any part of it.
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There are tons. I personally use import, from ImageMagick. It has the ability to capture the whole screen, a given window, or to let you select an area of the screen and just capture that
Specific area
$ import /path/to/output.png
import will let you draw an area with the mouse to capture:
Individual window
First you need to find out the X window ID:
$ xdpyinfo | grep focus
focus: window 0x3000006, revert to Parent
Then you can run import:
$ import -window 0x3000006 /path/to/output.png
You can also run import /path/to/output.png like when taking a screenshot of a specific area, and when it pauses to let you draw the area with your mouse, click on the target window.
Whole screen
Use root for the window ID:
$ import -window root /path/to/output.png
You can use xbindkeys to bind those commands to the Print Screen key; I use a script called screenshot, so my configuration looks like:
"screenshot root"
m:0x0 + c:107
"screenshot window"
m:0x8 + c:107
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Strangely enough,
xdpyinfo | grep focusreturns a window ID different by a unit by the expected one (found withwmctrland the human knowledge of what window has the focus). – enzotib Feb 3 '12 at 11:08 -
xdpyinfo | grep focus doesn't work because what if i want to capture other GUI windows instead of current terminal window. – 林果皞 Jan 29 '15 at 9:14
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It might be worth mentioning an alternative to the 'individual window' section: if you type
$ import /path/to/output.pngas in the third example and then click on a window (rather than click+drag to draw an area), then you will get a screenshot of that window. – John Gowers Jan 4 '18 at 12:16 -
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Just wrote this small interface to xwd, to make it wait the provided number of seconds before it takes the dump. It seems to work.
dumptime () {
(sleep $1; xwd -root | convert - `date +%I.%M.%S`.png) &
}
Also, there are scrot and gnome-screenshot.
The ImageMagick import solution in Mr. Mrozek's answer has a famous "black box" bug on -window root - not everyone gets it, but I do.
According to this, gnome-screenshot is based on ImageMagick - but it is not a wrapper; I just browsed the code, and it is a big C application.
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Hit print screen and if gnome is setup correctly, a screenshot utility will pop up.
