Monday, October 21, 2013

Capture screen in Raspberry Pi with Scrot

Scrot is a minimalistic command line screen capturing application. It allows substantial degree of flexibility by specifying parameters on command line, including the ability to invoke a third-party utility to manipulate the resulting screenshot.


- Install Scrot on Raspberry Pi:

Open Terminal:
start > accessories > LXTerminal

Enter the command in LXTerminal
$ sudo apt-get install scrot

- To capture screen:
Enter the command in LXTerminal
$ scrot

- Display help message:
$ scrot -h

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrot

Raspberry Pi screen captured with Scrot
Raspberry Pi screen captured with Scrot

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