GNOME Screenshot

GNOME Screenshot is a desktop environment-agnostic utility for taking screenshots which is no longer being developed. 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]

GNOME Screenshot
GNOME Screenshot 3.38
Developer(s)	GNOME Project
Final release	41.0[1]  / 14 November 2021; 3 years ago (14 November 2021)
Repository	gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-screenshot.git
Written in	C
Operating system	Unix-like
Platform	GTK
Type	Screenshot software
License	GPL-2.0-or-later
Website	gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-screenshot

Main article: GNOME Core Applications

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