GNOME Screenshot is a

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-agnostic utility for taking

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s. It was part of the GNOME Utilities (gnome-utils) package, but was split into its own package for the 3.3.1 version in 2011. It was the default screenshot software in

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. It provides several options, including capturing the whole desktop or just a single window, a time delay function, and some image effects. These options are also bound to keyboard shortcuts, PrtSc for whole screen, Crtl-PrtSc for current window, and Shift-PrtSc for area of the screen, which then automatically saves the screenshot to a file in the home directory. Similar applications includ
FlameshotShutter
which provides more options, and

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in KDE.

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* https://apps.gnome.org/app/org.gnome.Screenshot/
the gnome-screenshot User's Guide
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