I ended up purging scrot 
This works well. If I don't want the cursor in an active window screenshot all I have to do is move the cursor out of the window.

This works well. If I don't want the cursor in an active window screenshot all I have to do is move the cursor out of the window.
Code:
# active window with cursor - Alt-End gnome-screenshot -wp -f ~/Desktop/"window-$(date +%Y%m%d_%H:%M:%S)".png # region - Shift-End gnome-screenshot -a -f ~/Desktop/"region-$(date +%Y%m%d_%H:%M:%S)".png # desktop - Fn-End gnome-screenshot -f ~/Desktop/"desktop-$(date +%Y%m%d_%H:%M:%S)".png
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