NAME scrotty - Screenshot program for Linux's TTY. SYNOPSIS scrotty [OPTION]... [FILENAME_PATTERN] [-- CONVERT_OPTION...] DESCRIPTION scrotty is a minimalist screenshoter for the Linux VT. It takes a screenshot of your framebuffers (multiple are supported.) X is not supported. scrotty is designed after scrot(1), but includes a some improvements. Namely it does not support delaying the screenshot, selecting image quality or creating thumbnails, but it has support for adding arbitrary arguments to convert(1), which is used to save the image. OPTIONS --help Print usage information. --version Print program name and version. --copyright Print copyright information. --exec CMD Command to run for each saved image. SPECIAL STRINGS Both the --exec and FILENAME_PATTERN parameters can take format specifiers that are expanded by scrotty when encountered. There are two types of format specifier. Characters preceded by a '%' are interpretted by strftime(3). These options may be used to refer to the current date and time. The second kind are internal to scrotty and are prefixed by '$' or '\'. The following specifiers are recognised: $i framebuffer index $f image filename/pathname (ignored in FILENAME_PATTERN) $n image filename (ignored in FILENAME_PATTERN) $p image width multiplied by image height $w image width $h image height $$ expands to a literal '$' \n expands to a new line \\ expands to a literal '\' \ expands to a literal ' ' (backslash, space) A space that is not prefixed by a backslash in --exec is interpreted as an argument delimiter. This is the case even at the beginning and end of the string and if a space was the previous character in the string. RATIONALE Taking screenshots was a pain before this. Screenshots are useful if you want to remember something or send an image of how something looks. SEE ALSO scrot(1), convert(1), strftime(3) Full documentation available locally via: info '(scrotty)'