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amatika

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Registered: 2016-03-17

Posts: 59

Keyboard shortcut for screenshot of selected area

How to make keyboard shortcut for take screenshot of selection?
I am using Gnome and have the following setting for screenshot of an area. PrintScr takes a screenshot of the whole screen but SHIFT+PrintScr does nothing.

https://i.postimg.cc/1zQJKYSM/settingsgnome.png

How can I set SHIFT+Print to take screenshot of selected area.

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amatika

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Registered: 2016-03-17

Posts: 59

Re: Keyboard shortcut for screenshot of selected area

Getting back to my question.

Is there any way to setup a keyboard shortcut to take a screenshot of selected area?
(I am using Gnome Budgie but not sure if this is DE related thing at all.)

teckk

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Registered: 2013-02-21

Posts: 589

Re: Keyboard shortcut for screenshot of selected area

I don't know gnome, you'll have to see to that. To take a screenshot of a selected area, I bound some key combos to scrot in my WM config files. I used the print scr key.

#Capture desktop
Print :Exec scrot

#Capture Focused window
Mod4 Print :Exec sleep 3 && scrot -u

#Capture Select area
Control Print :Exec fbrun -text "scrot -s"

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xbindkeys
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME