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Rick
Asked: 2012-07-31 12:22:45 +0800 CST

How do I set a shortcut to screenshot a selected area?

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In gnome's screen shot program, the quick keys PrtScn captures the entire screen and alt+PrtScn captures the active window. Is there a way to script or set up the third capture option of a selected area?

Update: I don't seem to have this key already mapped... enter image description here

12.04

7 Answers

  1. Best Answer
    1. Open System Settings -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts
    2. Select Custom Shortcuts(you can go to Screenshot-s too and it will work)
    3. Click +
    4. Fill fields
      • Name to Take a screenshot of area
      • Command to gnome-screenshot -a or shutter -s(if u prefer shutter)
    5. Click OK
    6. Double-click on what you make and set shortcut Shift+PrtSc

    — And that's all ... ;)

    making command
    settings shortcut

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  2. That shortcut is already built-in: Shift+PrtScr :)

    The full-list of screenshot keyboard shortcuts is:

    enter image description here

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  3. While to above answers worked for me in Ubuntu; after switching to Lubuntu I noticed that the ShiftPrtScn was no longer working.

    The following procedure fixed it for me. Since in Lubuntu the program scrot is used, I found that I had to add the following to the ~/.config/openbox/lubuntu-rc.xml:

    <!-- Launch scrot with interactive select when Shift-Print is pressed -->
<keybind key="S-Print">
  <action name="Execute">
    <command>scrot -s</command>
  </action>
</keybind>

    After the change do not forget to issue: openbox --reconfigure to activate the updates.

    See the Lubuntu documentation for more details.

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  4. you can try this command from terminal if you have a problem with shortcuts. 

    sleep 5 && gnome-screenshot -a -c

    Now open the window you want to take screenshot from and select the area after 5 seconds after the command execution.

    sleep 5

    makes the terminal waits 5 seconds before executing the command so you can go to the window you want within this while 

    gnome-screenshot -a -c

    takes screenshot of an area and copy it to clipboard.

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  5. Gnome now includes a tool by default.

    The previous Shift+Prt Scr seem to no longer work for me. Not sure if that is a regression.

    But just pressing Prt Scr (Print screen) will bring up this UI, allowing you to snip:

    Image courtesy omg! ubuntu! Ubuntu 22.04 LTS: Screenshot Tour

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  6. For xubuntu and xfce users:

    Run Keyboard app from the launcher menu, go to Application Shortcuts, check current action for Print, if it's xfce4-screenshooter -f:

    1. add a new action: xfce4-screenshooter -r
    2. Set Shift+PrtScn for it
    3. Check
    4. Enjoy

    If it's not xfce4-screenshooter - check the current tool how to run it in the "region screenshot" mode

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  7. To take screenshot from a selected area And copy to clipboard, just press:

    Ctrl+Shift+PrtScrn

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