3 examples for scrot
# Take a screenshot with the name YYYY-MM-DD_HH:mm:ss.png and move it to ~/screenshots scrot '%F_%T.png' -e 'mv $f ~/screenshots/'
# screencap a part of the screen with your mouse # the file will be titled like 2014-01-31-015810_228x295_scrot.png scrot -s
# Creates a file called "screenshot.png" after a delay of 10 seconds scrot -d 10 screenshot.png