GNOME Screenshot explained

GNOME Screenshot
Developer:	GNOME Project
Programming Language:	C
Operating System:	Unix-like
Platform:	GTK
Genre:	Screenshot software
License:	GPL-2.0-or-later

See main article: GNOME Core Applications. 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^[1] for the 3.3.1 version in 2011.^[2] It was the default screenshot software in GNOME until it was replaced by a built-in utility in GNOME Shell version 42.^[3]

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

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cecchi. Cosimo. gnome-utils module split completed. 6 November 2013.
2. Web site: Cecchi. Cosimo. release: prepare for 3.3.1. 6 November 2013.
3. Web site: GNOME Release Notes . 2023-09-18 . GNOME Release Notes . en.