ArsGeek

If you’ve ever wanted to take a screen shot, but add in a bit of a delay, there’s an easy way to do this via your Command Line Interface.

Open up your CLI (Applications-> Accessories-> Terminal) and type the following:

gnome-screenshot –delay 5

From the instant you hit (gently please) your Enter key, you’ll have 5 seconds to get everything into position before Gnome takes a screen shot for you.

You can also add the –window option to take a shot of the window that has focus (focus being the window that’s currently in use or ‘on top’).

gnome-screenshot –delay 10 –window

You can even add some effects.

gnome-screenshot –delay 4 –window –include-border

This will include the window border with a 4 second pause, taking an image only of the in focus window.

gnome-screenshot –delay 6 –window –border-effect=shadow

This will take an image of the in focus window after a 6 second delay with a drop shadow effect.

There are of course keyboard shortcuts you can use as well. The PrintScreen (PrtSc) button will take a screen shot of your entire desktop. Holding down the ALT key and then PrtSc will take a shot of the window in focus.