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There are a couple of apps available on the Jolla store that will let you take screenshots via the interface, but occasionally you may want/need to capture the screen from the command line, particularly over SSH. The easiest way to do it is to use dbus to send a message to lipstick, the UX manager. It should work on both SailfishOS and Nemomobile, and on all devices.

Here are two ways to do it on the command-line, over SSH or to be included in a shell script:

1. Using dbus-send

   dbus-send --session --print-reply --dest=org.nemomobile.lipstick /org/nemomobile/lipstick/screenshot org.nemomobile.lipstick.saveScreenshot string:"/home/nemo/Pictures/Screenshot-$(date +%d-%m-%y-%H-%M-%S).png"

2. Using qdbus (from the qt5-qttools-qdbus package)

   /usr/lib/qt5/bin/qdbus org.nemomobile.lipstick /org/nemomobile/lipstick/screenshot org.nemomobile.lipstick.saveScreenshot "/home/nemo/Pictures/Screenshot-$(date +%d-%m-%y-%H-%M-%S).png"

The code-snippet below shows how you'd also achieve the same in Qt directly:

QDBusInterface *iface = new QDBusInterface("org.nemomobile.lipstick",
                                           "/org/nemomobile/lipstick/screenshot",
                                           "org.nemomobile.lipstick",
                                           QDBusConnection::sessionBus(),
                                           this);
iface->call(QDBus::NoBlock, "saveScreenshot", QString("/home/nemo/Pictures/Screenshot-%1.png").arg(QDateTime::currentDateTime().toString("dd-MM-yy-hh-mm-ss")));

There are a couple of apps available on the Jolla store that will let you take screenshots via the interface, but occasionally you may want/need to capture the screen from the command line, particularly over SSH. The easiest way to do it is to use dbus to send a message to lipstick, the UX manager. It should work on both SailfishOS and Nemomobile, and on all devices.

Here are two ways to do it on the command-line, over SSH or to be included in a shell script:

1. Using dbus-send

   dbus-send --session --print-reply --dest=org.nemomobile.lipstick /org/nemomobile/lipstick/screenshot org.nemomobile.lipstick.saveScreenshot string:"/home/nemo/Pictures/Screenshot-$(date +%d-%m-%y-%H-%M-%S).png"+%y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S).png"

2. Using qdbus (from the qt5-qttools-qdbus package)

   /usr/lib/qt5/bin/qdbus org.nemomobile.lipstick /org/nemomobile/lipstick/screenshot org.nemomobile.lipstick.saveScreenshot "/home/nemo/Pictures/Screenshot-$(date +%d-%m-%y-%H-%M-%S).png"+%y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S).png"

The code-snippet below shows how you'd also achieve the same in Qt directly:

QDBusInterface *iface = new QDBusInterface("org.nemomobile.lipstick",
                                           "/org/nemomobile/lipstick/screenshot",
                                           "org.nemomobile.lipstick",
                                           QDBusConnection::sessionBus(),
                                           this);
iface->call(QDBus::NoBlock, "saveScreenshot", QString("/home/nemo/Pictures/Screenshot-%1.png").arg(QDateTime::currentDateTime().toString("dd-MM-yy-hh-mm-ss")));
QString("/home/nemo/Pictures/Screenshot-%1.png").arg(QDateTime::currentDateTime().toString("yy-MM-dd-hh-mm-ss")));

There are a couple of apps available on the Jolla store that will let you take screenshots via the interface, but occasionally you may want/need to capture the screen from the command line, particularly over SSH. The easiest way to do it is to use dbus to send a message to lipstick, the UX manager. It should work on both SailfishOS and Nemomobile, and on all devices.

Here are two ways to do it on the command-line, over SSH or to be included in a shell script:

1. Using dbus-send

   dbus-send --session --print-reply --dest=org.nemomobile.lipstick /org/nemomobile/lipstick/screenshot org.nemomobile.lipstick.saveScreenshot string:"/home/nemo/Pictures/Screenshot-$(date +%y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S).png"

2. Using qdbus (from the qt5-qttools-qdbus package)

   /usr/lib/qt5/bin/qdbus org.nemomobile.lipstick /org/nemomobile/lipstick/screenshot org.nemomobile.lipstick.saveScreenshot "/home/nemo/Pictures/Screenshot-$(date +%y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S).png"

3. Using grabscreen

   grabscreen

The code-snippet below shows how you'd also achieve the same in Qt directly:

QDBusInterface *iface = new QDBusInterface("org.nemomobile.lipstick",
                                           "/org/nemomobile/lipstick/screenshot",
                                           "org.nemomobile.lipstick",
                                           QDBusConnection::sessionBus(),
                                           this);
iface->call(QDBus::NoBlock, "saveScreenshot", QString("/home/nemo/Pictures/Screenshot-%1.png").arg(QDateTime::currentDateTime().toString("yy-MM-dd-hh-mm-ss")));

There are a couple of apps available on the Jolla store that will let you take screenshots via the interface, but occasionally you may want/need to capture the screen from the command line, particularly over SSH. The easiest way to do it is to use dbus to send a message to lipstick, the UX manager. It should work on both SailfishOS and Nemomobile, and on all devices.

Here are two ways to do it on the command-line, over SSH or to be included in a shell script:

1. Using dbus-send

   dbus-send --session --print-reply --dest=org.nemomobile.lipstick /org/nemomobile/lipstick/screenshot org.nemomobile.lipstick.saveScreenshot string:"/home/nemo/Pictures/Screenshot-$(date +%y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S).png"

2. Using qdbus (from the qt5-qttools-qdbus package)

   /usr/lib/qt5/bin/qdbus org.nemomobile.lipstick /org/nemomobile/lipstick/screenshot org.nemomobile.lipstick.saveScreenshot "/home/nemo/Pictures/Screenshot-$(date +%y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S).png"

3. Using grabscreen

   grabscreengrabscreen "/home/nemo/Pictures/Screenshot-$(date +%y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S).png"

The code-snippet below shows how you'd also achieve the same in Qt directly:

QDBusInterface *iface = new QDBusInterface("org.nemomobile.lipstick",
                                           "/org/nemomobile/lipstick/screenshot",
                                           "org.nemomobile.lipstick",
                                           QDBusConnection::sessionBus(),
                                           this);
iface->call(QDBus::NoBlock, "saveScreenshot", QString("/home/nemo/Pictures/Screenshot-%1.png").arg(QDateTime::currentDateTime().toString("yy-MM-dd-hh-mm-ss")));