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scrot is a command-line utility for taking screenshots on Unix-like systems such as Ubuntu.

scrot was first released in 2000 and the latest stable release was in 2003 with no development since that time. However scrot still works perfectly well on a modern Ubuntu system.

Features include:

  • Takes a full screen snapshot in user-defined quality PNG file
  • Takes partial screen size: either selected by drawing with mouse or selecting a window
  • Outputs screenshot directly to an image manipulating application such as GIMP
  • Sets a delay and/or countdown on the screenshot
  • Gets screenshots over a network on a remote computer

More information on screenshots on Ubuntu available here:

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Scrot not working with Ubuntu 22.04

Okay as far as my searches go, I haven't found this question posed online... Has anyone else ran into issues with the screenshot program scrot not working correctly with Ubuntu 22.04? Currently, the program "works" but only screenshots a black…
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system does not beep while taking screenshots in scrot

I am trying to learn scrot utility and there is an option -z or --silent to prevent beeping. But my system is not beeping at all and so I am unable to test this -z option. I have installed the beep utility in my system.
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giblib error on LXterminal

I used this command: scrot -e 'mv $f ~/Pictures/Screenshots/ I have also created those folders in my directory but i cannot still take a screenshot. I keep getting: giblib error:Saving to file filename.png failed
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How to take screenshots with a timestamp and date stamp (with scrot command)

How to take screenshots with a timestamp and date stamp (with scrot command)? I forget the dates and i dont have time to go to properties and see the date. also, dates aren't written on the panel even! i use lubuntu 13.10 and 512 mb ram
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--exec APP command not working in scrot

I am trying to run --exec command in Scrot to open an image in an APP from command line. But it is not opening the desired image, instead it is listing the contents of the directory or displaying all the images of the directory. scrot --exec APP…
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