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GNOME Screenshot

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Developer(s)
  
The GNOME Project

Operating system
  
Linux and Unix-like

Written in
  
C

Type
  
Screenshot software

GNOME Screenshot

Stable release
  
3.22.3 (9 November 2016; 3 months ago (2016-11-09)) [±]

Preview release
  
3.23.91 (1 March 2017; 7 days ago (2017-03-01)) [±]

GNOME Screenshot is a utility used in the GNOME desktop environment for taking screenshots. It was part of the GNOME Utilities (gnome-utils) package, but was split into its own package for the 3.3.1 version in 2011.

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 bound to keyboard shortcuts, PrtSc for whole screen, Crtl-PrtSc for current window, and Shift-PrtSc for area of the screen, which then automatically saves the screenshot to a file in the home directory. In beginning of 2017 it is nearly the only application which works on Gnome with Wayland.

Similar applications include Shutter, which provides more options, and KSnapshot in KDE.

References

GNOME Screenshot Wikipedia