Screenshot Gnome-shell how to

**joplass** · December 2nd, 2011

How do you take a screenshot in gnome-shell while in preview mode? I tried PrtScrn on the keyboard. I get "Gnome Screenshot failed: Command not found.
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**Bobhuber** · December 2nd, 2011

Originally Posted by joplass

How do you take a screenshot in gnome-shell while in preview mode? I tried PrtScrn on the keyboard. I get "Gnome Screenshot failed: Command not found.
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Yes it's a known bug in gnome3. Install a program called scrot from the package manager. Works great.

**joplass** · December 2nd, 2011

Originally Posted by Bobhuber

Yes it's a known bug in gnome3. Install a program called scrot from the package manager. Works great.

I have been using scrot and I am very familiar with the program. I wonder if there is another way of running scrot.
I did Alt+F2 to launch the command popl up while in preview mode. Typing "scrot -d 5" gave me command not recognized. How do you use scrot in preview mode?
Thanks

**Bobhuber** · December 2nd, 2011

Originally Posted by joplass

I have been using scrot and I am very familiar with the program. I wonder if there is another way of running scrot.
I did Alt+F2 to launch the command popl up while in preview mode. Typing "scrot -d 5" gave me command not recognized. How do you use scrot in preview mode?
Thanks

Remove the space in your command and tell it what kind of file you want to create..
I wrote a simple bash file that I run from Cairo dock. You could run it ALT+F2 also.
screenshot.sh

Code:

#!/bin/bash
scrot -d5 temp.png
convert temp.png -resize '50%' desktop.jpg
rm temp.png
eog desktop.jpg

Change the delay to suit your needs and it will give you plenty of time to do whatever with the desktop. This takes the shot,resizes it and displays it for preview. Save the file in /usr/local/bin and mark it executable.To run it just type screenshot.sh from a terminal or ALT+F2.
Please note you will need ImageMagick installed for the convert command to work.

**joplass** · December 2nd, 2011

Originally Posted by Bobhuber

Remove the space in your command and tell it what kind of file you want to create..
I wrote a simple bash file that I run from Cairo dock. You could run it ALT+F2 also.
screenshot.sh

Code:

#!/bin/bash
scrot -d5 temp.png
convert temp.png -resize '50%' desktop.jpg
rm temp.png
eog desktop.jpg

Change the delay to suit your needs and it will give you plenty of time to do whatever with the desktop. This takes the shot,resizes it and displays it for preview. Save the file in /usr/local/bin and mark it executable.To run it just type screenshot.sh from a terminal or ALT+F2.
Please note you will need ImageMagick installed for the convert command to work.

That did the trick.
Thanks