import screenshot.jpg
This will allow you to select a rectangle using your mouse. The moment you let go of your left mouse button, a screenshot with the contents of that rectangle will be saved in the current directory.
And then there’s scrot.
scrot -d 4 screenshot.png
This will take a screenshot of your entire desktop, with a delay of 4 seconds between launching the command and saving the screenshot.png file. Use
scrot -c -d 4 screenshot.png
to also display a countdown in the console. Use
scrot -q 80 -c -d 4 screenshot.jpg
this command also used
xwd | convert xwd:- screenshot_$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S).png
To Take Screen Short of Remote Desktop
If you want to take a screenshot of remote Linux desktop
DISPLAY=”:0.0″ import -window root screenshot.png
This will allow you to select a rectangle using your mouse. The moment you let go of your left mouse button, a screenshot with the contents of that rectangle will be saved in the current directory.
And then there’s scrot.
scrot -d 4 screenshot.png
This will take a screenshot of your entire desktop, with a delay of 4 seconds between launching the command and saving the screenshot.png file. Use
scrot -c -d 4 screenshot.png
to also display a countdown in the console. Use
scrot -q 80 -c -d 4 screenshot.jpg
this command also used
xwd | convert xwd:- screenshot_$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S).png
To Take Screen Short of Remote Desktop
If you want to take a screenshot of remote Linux desktop
DISPLAY=”:0.0″ import -window root screenshot.png
