GNOME Screenshot
GNOME Screenshot is a desktop environment-agnostic utility for taking screenshots. It was formerly the default screenshot tool in the GNOME desktop environment but is no longer being actively developed for that purpose. It was originally part of the GNOME Utilities package but was split into its own package for the 3.3.1 version in 2011. It remained the default screenshot software in GNOME until it was replaced by a built-in utility in GNOME Shell version 42 in 2022.
Features
The application allows users to capture the whole screen, a specific window, or a user-selected rectangular area. It provides several options including:- A time delay function.
- The ability to include or exclude the mouse pointer.
- Image effects, such as adding a drop shadow or a border to the screenshot.
Keyboard shortcuts
While the application provides a graphical user interface, its functions are also bound to keyboard shortcuts in many Linux distributions using GNOME or similar desktop environments:- captures the whole screen.
- captures the currently focused window.
- captures a selected area of the screen.
- Adding to any of the above shortcuts copies the image to the clipboard instead of saving it to a file.