mate-screenshot (1) - Linux Manuals

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

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

mate-screenshot is a MATE utility for taking screenshots of the entire screen, a window or an user-defined area of the screen, with optional beutifying 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 rectangular 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 MATE command line options apply. See the output of --help for details.

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Christian Marillat <marillat [at] debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

Updated by Theppitak Karoonboonyanan <thep [at] linux.thai.net>, Tom Feiner <feiner.tom [at] gmail.com> and Cosimo Cecchi <cosimoc [at] gnome.org>

SEE ALSO

mate-options(7), gtk-options(7)