Unity, Gnome and gnome-screenshot over scrot
I’m really satisfied with the default Gnome screenshot system. Easy to use and very responsive.
Simple press Prt button for a whole screen grab,
just Shift+Prt to catch an area or Alt+Prt to get a window saved.
Easy, fast and reliable.
It’s Gnome Screenshots and screencasts.
But what if you need to customize it?
System settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts and you can change the default behaviors.
Add custom shortcuts to add something new.
Just add the appropriate gnome-screenshot command combination. Not really.
If you put the command directly in the shortcut window, it doesn’t work.
Apart from that, for my needs, I must leave the original shortcuts available for the use with external keyboard (which has a Prt key) and I must create new shortcuts to use in mobility with the laptop keyboard (which has no Prt key) only.
So… we need to create some simple scripts.
mkdir ~/Pictures/Screenshots/
mkdir ~/.scripts/
cd ~/.scripts/
touch shot.sh shot-area.sh shot-window.sh
nano shot.sh
Edit the scripts and save with CTRL+O.
#!/bin/bash
#
# Custom screenshot key - shot.sh
#
gnome-screenshot -f "$HOME/Pictures/Screenshots/$(date +%F_%H:%M:%S).png"
#!/bin/bash
#
# Custom screenshot key - shot-area.sh
#
gnome-screenshot -a -f "$HOME/Pictures/Screenshots/$(date +%F_%H:%M:%S).png"
#!/bin/bash
#
# Custom screenshot key - shot-window.sh
#
gnome-screenshot -w -f "$HOME/Pictures/Screenshots/$(date +%F_%H:%M:%S).png"
Make the scripts executable:
chmod +x shot.sh
chmod +x shot-area.sh
chmod +x shot-window.sh
And finally set the shortcuts in the keyboard settings with the complete path:
CTRL+SHIFT+S ---> /home/user-name/.scripts/shot.sh
CTRL+SHIFT+A ---> /home/user-name/.scripts/shot-area.sh
CTRL+SHIFT+W ---> /home/user-name/.scripts/shot-window.sh
That’s all.