Some shortcuts to take screenshots are not working
Hello, everybody.
The keyboard shortcuts Shift+Print (Take a screenshot of an area) and Ctrl+Shift+Print (Copy a screenshot of an area to clipboard) they work sporadically. The Print key some times needs to be pressed 2/3 (some times even more) times consecutively while holding Shift for the mouse cursor to enter into selection mode.
gnome-screenshot -a
on a terminal works 100% of the time. Although, a warning message can be seen on the terminal _(_* Message: Unable to select area using GNOME Shell's builtin screenshot interface, resorting to fallback X11.)*.gnome-screenshot -a
command, it has the exact same problem than the default shortcut.If I assign a new custom keyboard shortcut to run a script file containing the gnome-screenshot -a
command, it has the exact same problem than the default shortcut.
Operating System: Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon 64-bit
Related to #3981 (which notes a related issue in MATE).
Some observations about shift+print on Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon 3.0.7:
A possible workaround reported on the forums is to bind the keyboard shortcut to a custom script that inserts a short delay:
#!/bin/sh
sleep 0.125
gnome-screenshot --area
I'm going to go ahead and close this one as a duplicate. The issue linked by xenopeek gives pretty much all the same info.
Hello, g@ys.
@xenopeek: Thanks for the link and the workarounds. I can confirm that the script with the delay works 100% of the time. The other workarounds also worked on some degree, but they are kind of annoying to take into account and use them on a daily basis. Thanks again.
@JosephMcc: Very sorry for wasting your time with a known issue. It seems that I didn't do a very good job at searching for this. I will be more careful in the future and search more thoroughly the current issues before reporting here. Thanks, JosephMcc.
It isn't always easy to find duplicates. I get help from others locating them and sometimes just remember there is one, so I know what I'm look for beforehand.
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Related to #3981 (which notes a related issue in MATE).
Some observations about shift+print on Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon 3.0.7:
A possible workaround reported on the forums is to bind the keyboard shortcut to a custom script that inserts a short delay: