one-button screenshots attempt with scrot and fvwm
In Gnome desktop, a full-screen screenshot is printscreen, and to snap the current window, it's alt-printscreen. Gnome desktop has many annoyances, so I tend to use to use fvwm. So far, I've managed to get screenshots working under fvwm using a program called scrot(1) , a shell script wrapping it, and a little fvwm config. scrot is packaged by debian, so installing it is no problem. The invocation to capture the currently focussed window with window manager decorations (borders) is, for example: scrot -u $HOME/scr/%Y-%m-%d.%H.%M.%S.png -b but the directory must already exist, so I wrap it in a shell script I put in ~/bin/screenshot with contents: #!/bin/sh set -e DIR=$HOME/scr if ! [ -d "$DIR" ] ; then mkdir $DIR fi exec scrot -u $HOME/scr/%Y-%m-%d.%H.%M.%S.png -b To bind this to alt-printscreen in fvwm, I have this config in .fvwm/config : Key Print A M Exec exec screenshot The Print means the printsc...