NAME

       mate-screenshot  -  capture  the  screen,  a  window, or an user-defined area and save the
       snapshot image to a file.

SYNOPSIS

       mate-screenshot [ -w ]  [ -a ]  [ -b ]  [ -B ]  [ -d SECONDS  ]  [ -e EFFECT  ]  [ -i ]  [
       --display DISPLAY  ]

DESCRIPTION

       mate-screenshot is a MATE utility for taking screenshots of the entire screen, a window or
       an user-defined area of the screen, with optional beutifying border effects.

OPTIONS

       -w, --window
              Grab the current active window instead of the entire screen.

       -a, --area
              Grab an area of the screen instead of the entire screen.

       -b, --include-border
              Include the window border within the screenshot.

       -B, --remove-border
              Remove the window border from the screenshot.

       -d, --delay=SECONDS,
              Take the screenshot after the specified delay [in seconds].

       -e, --effect=EFFECT,
              Add an effect to the outside of the screenshot border.  EFFECT  can  be  ``shadow''
              (adding  drop  shadow), ``border'' (adding rectangular space around the screenshot)
              or ``none'' (no effect).  Default is ``none''.

       -i, --interactive
              Interactively set options in a dialog.

       --display=DISPLAY
              X display to use.

       -?, -h, --help
              Show a summary of the available options.

       In addition, the usual GTK+ and MATE command line options apply.  See the output of --help
       for details.

SEE ALSO

       mate-options(7), gtk-options(7)

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page  was written by Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org> for the Debian
       GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

       Updated    by    Theppitak    Karoonboonyanan    <thep@linux.thai.net>,     Tom     Feiner
       <feiner.tom@gmail.com> and Cosimo Cecchi <cosimoc@gnome.org>

                                          June 28, 2009                        MATE-SCREENSHOT(1)