2018-12-07
The Advent of Void: Day 7: scrot
scrot(1) is a tool for taking screenshots on XWindow systems.
The simplest way to create a screenshot from your desktop is to call the program without arguments
$ scrot
$ ls
2018-12-07-114552_3200x1800_scrot.png
This creates a timestamped png file covering the whole desktop.
scrot allows you to define a target filename as last argument:
$ scrot awesome_screenshot.png
$ ls
awesome_screenshot.png
This creates awesome_screenshot.png
instead of an autocreated filename
To screenshot a single window you can either use -s
to select the window with
the mouse or -u
to screenshot the currently focused one. For -u
it might be
useful to also apply -d 2
to get 2 seconds to focus the desired window.
$ scrot -s
$ ls
2018-12-07-115330_1444x952_scrot.png
If you like to learn more about scrot, please consider reading the manpage.