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Billal Begueradj
Asked: 2018-11-18 09:03:32 +0800 CST

How to set shortcuts to screenshot on Ubuntu Mate 16.04 LTS?

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In Ubuntu Mate version 16.04.5 LTS (Xenial) , I want to create a shortcut like Shift + PrtScr to screenshot, but I am not able to find where to do it.

When I go to Preferences -> Keyboard and Mouse -> Keyboard I do not find a way to set it there.

For the moment I type on Terminal: bash -c "DISPLAY=:0 mate-screenshot -a" to take a screenshot of a specific area, or mate-screenshot for the whole screen, but that is not practical.

Anyway on how to do it?

shortcut-keys screenshot 16.04 mate

1 Answers

  1. You need to open MATE Control Center, then click on Keyboard Shortcuts (or while using Ubuntu MATE panel layout — System→Preferences→Hardware→Keyboard Shortcuts).
    Also you can open it from terminal or Alt+F2 prompt with mate-keybinding-properties.

    Here in Custom Shortcuts I have
    Area screenshot to file with mate-screenshot -a -i command
    and Shift+Print shortcut.

    Above:

    • -a means --area to "Grab an area of the screen instead of the entire screen".
    • -i means --interactive to "Interactively set options" (it a workaround, on my systems it does not work without it)

    In dconf syntax it is written as:

    dconf load / << EOF
[org/mate/desktop/keybindings/custom1]
action='mate-screenshot -a -i'
binding='<Shift>Print'
name='Area screenshot to file'
EOF
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