gvnccapture(1)

gvnccapture1

Vnc screenshot capture

Usage

gvnccapture [OPTION] ... [HOST] [:DISPLAY] FILENAME

Overview

Capture a screenshot of the VNC desktop at HOST:DISPLAY saving to the image file FILENAME. If HOST is omitted it defaults to "localhost", if :DISPLAY is omitted, it defaults to ":1". FILENAME must end in a known image format extension (eg ".png", ".jpeg"). Supported options are

--help, -?

Display command line help information

--quiet, -q

Do not display information on the console when capturing the screenshot, with the exception of any password prompt.

--debug, -d

Display verbose debugging information on the console

Exit status

The exit status is 0 upon successful screen capture, otherwise it is a non-zero integer

Examples

 # gvnccapture localhost:1 desktop.png
 Password:
 Connected to localhost:1
 Saved display to desktop.png

Releases

6 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 9
  2. 10
  3. 11
  4. 12
  5. 13
  6. Arch

Authors

Daniel P. Berrange <[email protected]>

From gtk-vnc 1.5.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.