MATE-SCREENSHOT(1)                                          MATE-SCREENSHOT(1)

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)