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 Print screen dialog when pressing the PrtScr button

Created 7 months ago, edited 7 months ago.
Status changed 4 months ago
Author:

Brucey99
Status:
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 19
23 votes
Idea:

As discussed here: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=114539

Currently in Cinnamon, when pressing the print screen (PrtScr) button on the keyboard, it will secretly save a screenshot to the 'Pictures' folder without notifying the user.

This makes it very confusing as users will generally assume one of two things will happen when they press PrtScr

1. A message dialog will appear asking them where to save it.
or
2. The image will be copied to clipboard

Currently neither happens.

Solution: Assign the PrtScr shortcut to launch the gnome-screenshot 'save screenshot' dialog (you can view this by going to Menu>Accessories>Screenshot>Take Screenshot). This notifies the user where to save the image and gives the option to copy to clipboard.

Comments:

2 months ago

RedGhost
I would also request the selection option 'select area to grab' option as I find I need only clips of sections and right now I either have to open the automatically full screen screenshot in Gimp and edit or start the Screen Shot app form Menu to access this option which not convienient to my workflow. ( I was frustrated and did a search and found this request that is how bad it bugged me :D )  
6 months ago

ElHaj

how about:

as shared by @joelz "always get a dialogue box pop up every time I press PrntScrn" but a dialogue that doesn't need confirmation like when connecting to the internet

as shared by @Nooby4Ever an option to modify the default behavior like save to another location or capture active window instead of full screan

  
6 months ago

Mintification
I'm not using Cinnamon personally, but believe it's a great idea for any DE. Promoting :)  
7 months ago

Brucey99
I'm not proposing anything drastically new. showing a dialog is the default action for most desktop environments, including unity, mate and earlier cinnamon versions I believe.


When a user first presses PrntSrn, how are they supposed to know where the image was saved to? It's not very user friendly to do an action without notifying the user. It would be even better to have a dialog asking the user want they want to do automatically next time. eg. auto save to pictures folder or copy to clipboard. This would solve your issue @timpster. 		 
7 months ago

Brucey99
This is only related to Cinnamon (I have 1.6)




  
7 months ago

joelz
your idea is strange because when I use cinnamon I always get a dialogue box pop up every time I press PrntScrn.
in Lisa, the image is copied to the clipboard without notifying the user. 		 
7 months ago

Nooby4Ever
This is a cinnamon issue not a linux mint issue.

As for the request itself, i would like to see this in the setting of cinnamon.
For example a checkbox for:
*save prnt scrn to clipboard
*save prnt scrn to file

It's not necessary to pop the dialog every time you press prnt scrn, it will probably be annoying after a while. 		 
7 months ago

Brucey99
What? This isn't a tutorial, it's a feature change/request.  
7 months ago

remoulder
Tutorials should be posted in that section not here.  

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