GNOME Screenshot

Utility used in the GNOME desktop environment for taking screenshots
GNOME Screenshot
GNOME Screenshot 3.38
Developer(s)GNOME Project
Stable release
40.0[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 20 March 2021; 3 years ago (20 March 2021)
Repository
  • gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-screenshot.git Edit this at Wikidata
Written inC
Operating systemUnix-like
PlatformGTK
TypeScreenshot software
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later
Websiteapps.gnome.org/app/org.gnome.Screenshot/

GNOME Screenshot is a desktop environment-agnostic utility for taking screenshots. It was part of the GNOME Utilities (gnome-utils) package, but was split into its own package[2] for the 3.3.1 version in 2011.[3] It was the default screenshot software in GNOME until it was replaced by a built-in utility in GNOME Shell version 42.[4]

It provides several options, including capturing the whole desktop or just a single window, a time delay function, and some image effects.

These options are also default bound to keyboard shortcuts:

  • PrtSc for whole screen
  • Crtl + PrtSc for current window
  • Shift + PrtSc for area of the screen, which then automatically saves the screenshot to a file in the home directory.

Similar applications include Flameshot, Shutter which provides more options, and Spectacle in KDE.

See also

  • Spectacle
  • scrot

References

  1. ^ "Version 40.0".
  2. ^ Cecchi, Cosimo. "gnome-utils module split completed". Retrieved 6 November 2013.
  3. ^ Cecchi, Cosimo. "release: prepare for 3.3.1". Retrieved 6 November 2013.
  4. ^ "GNOME Release Notes". GNOME Release Notes. Retrieved 2023-09-18.

External links

  • https://apps.gnome.org/app/org.gnome.Screenshot/
  • the gnome-screenshot User's Guide
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