GNOME Screenshot

{{Short description|Utility used in the GNOME desktop environment for taking screenshots}}

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{{Main|GNOME Core Applications}}

GNOME Screenshot is a desktop environment-agnostic utility for taking screenshots. It was part of the GNOME Utilities (gnome-utils) package, but was split into its own package{{cite web|last=Cecchi|first=Cosimo|title=gnome-utils module split completed|url=https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-utils-list/2011-October/msg00000.html|access-date=6 November 2013}} for the 3.3.1 version in 2011.{{cite web|last=Cecchi|first=Cosimo|title=release: prepare for 3.3.1|url=https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-screenshot/commit/?id=eff5dd46b9b7efa30bcb906fe3a6891395763f18|access-date=6 November 2013}} It was the default screenshot software in GNOME until it was replaced by a built-in utility in GNOME Shell version 42.{{Cite web |title=GNOME Release Notes |url=https://release.gnome.org/42/ |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=GNOME Release Notes |language=en}}

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 [https://flameshot.org/ Flameshot], [https://shutter-project.org/ Shutter] which provides more options, and Spectacle in KDE.