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scrot

Screen capture utility. More information: https://github.com/resurrecting-open-source-projects/scrot.

  • Capture a screenshot and save it to the current directory with the current date as the filename:

scrot

  • Capture a screenshot and save it as capture.png:

scrot {{capture.png}}

  • Capture a screenshot interactively:

scrot --select

  • Capture a screenshot interactively without exiting on keyboard input, press ESC to exit:

scrot --select --ignorekeyboard

  • Capture a screenshot interactively delimiting the region with a colored line:

scrot --select --line color={{x11_color|rgb_color}}

  • Capture a screenshot from the currently focused window:

scrot --focused

  • Display a countdown of 10 seconds before taking a screenshot:

scrot --count --delay {{10}}