Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version 11.1

Chapter 34. GNOME Applications

gnome-screenshot-41.0

Introduction to GNOME Screenshot

The GNOME Screenshot is a utility used for taking screenshots of the entire screen, a window or a user-defined area of the screen, with optional beautifying border effects.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-11.1 platform.

Package Information

GNOME Screenshot Dependencies

Required

GTK+-3.24.31, libcanberra-0.30 (Compiled with GTK+3 support), and libhandy-1.4.0

User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gnome-screenshot

Installation of GNOME Screenshot

First, fix building with newer versions of meson: 

sed -i '/merge_file/{n;d}' data/meson.build

Install GNOME Screenshot by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release .. &&
ninja

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

ninja install
[Note]

Note

In order to best run GNOME Screenshot from the command line, the -i option needs to be specified.

Contents

Installed Program: gnome-screenshot
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

gnome-screenshot

is used to capture the screen, a window, or a user-defined area and save the snapshot image to a file

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