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Mapping Print-Key to snap region (Ubuntu 18.04 / Gnome)

Asked by Thomas Escher

Hi ...

I'm on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with Gnome and want to set the PRINT-Key as a shortcut to cut a region with Shutter.
Actually I'm unable to find a way.

Can you help there?

Thanks a lot,

Tom

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Randy Fournier (randymfournier) said : 		#1

You can use the command in terminal:

'shutter man" to see a list of all shutter commands and then use ubuntu's Keyboard shortcuts to create a shortcut to those commands.

so in your case if you want selection.

Name your shortcut

Command: shutter -s

Set shortcut key combination.

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heart (watercolorheart) said : 		#2

This completely worked for me, thank you!!

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Roman Shcherbich (r-shcherbich) said : 		#3

Command "shutter -s" assigned to shortcut key combination works. But it is inefficient behavior:
1) I mean when I press shortcut key (PrtScr in my case) in the first time it create instance of shutter (it takes 1 sec to start) and make screenshot.
2) when I press shortcut key in the second time it terminates previous instance and that's all. And I should press shortcut one more time to take screenshot.

However, when I press create screenshot through shutter UI it doesn't take additional time for close or start instance. And my question is:

Which command I should use to take area screenshot using running instance of shutter?

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Roman Shcherbich (r-shcherbich) said : 		#4

My fail. Bad version was installed.

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