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Bug 610291 - add keybinding to take screenshot of area
add keybinding to take screenshot of area
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 652489
Product: gnome-settings-daemon
Classification: Core
Component: media-keys
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-settings-daemon-maint
gnome-settings-daemon-maint
: 635411 640788 657502 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-02-17 18:04 UTC by William Jon McCann
Modified: 2012-01-27 12:21 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Add an area screenshot gconf key (1.39 KB, patch)
2011-01-30 11:01 UTC, drago01 		none Details | Review
Add an area screenshot keybinding (3.03 KB, patch)
2011-01-30 11:01 UTC, drago01 		none Details | Review

Description William Jon McCann 2010-02-17 18:04:06 UTC 
Not sure if this should be filed against metacity or mutter.

gnome-screenshot has a "--area" option that allows one to select an area of the screen to capture.  This is a really nice feature.  Without it one must save a shot to disk and crop with an extra tool.  Yuck.

It would be nice to add this shortcut.  We already have:
 * "Take a screenshot" = Print
 * "Take a screenshot of a window" = Alt+Print

So perhaps something like:
 * "Take a screenshot of a selected area" = Shift+Alt+Print

Don't know if we have a convention for what modifiers to use...
Comment 1 drago01 2010-05-09 13:13:07 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> Not sure if this should be filed against metacity or mutter.
> 
> gnome-screenshot has a "--area" option that allows one to select an area of the
> screen to capture.  This is a really nice feature.  Without it one must save a
> shot to disk and crop with an extra tool.  Yuck.

Yeah compiz has a similar feature (hold down super), which is very handy sometimes.

> It would be nice to add this shortcut.  We already have:
>  * "Take a screenshot" = Print
>  * "Take a screenshot of a window" = Alt+Print
> 
> So perhaps something like:
>  * "Take a screenshot of a selected area" = Shift+Alt+Print
> 
> Don't know if we have a convention for what modifiers to use...

Yeah that or Ctrl+Print ?
Comment 2 William Jon McCann 2011-01-28 02:00:32 UTC 
*** Bug 640788 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 drago01 2011-01-30 11:01:10 UTC 
Created attachment 179626 [details] [review]
Add an area screenshot gconf key

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Metacity patchs adds the gconf key, due to some focus weirdness
it does not call gnome-screenshot -a directly but prepends a sleep 0.1
Comment 4 drago01 2011-01-30 11:01:30 UTC 
Created attachment 179627 [details] [review]
Add an area screenshot keybinding
Comment 5 drago01 2011-01-30 11:02:03 UTC 
(I went with Control<Print> for now)
Comment 6 Cosimo Cecchi 2011-06-13 19:05:59 UTC 
Not commenting on the patch itself, but Ctrl+Print sounds right as default key to me.
Comment 7 Cosimo Cecchi 2011-06-13 19:35:08 UTC 
*** Bug 635411 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Cosimo Cecchi 2011-09-16 21:42:36 UTC 
*** Bug 657502 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Florian Müllner 2012-01-27 11:03:21 UTC 
With the GSettings port, keybindings for taking screenshots have been moved to the media-plugin of gnome-settings-daemon, so reassigning.
Comment 10 Bastien Nocera 2012-01-27 12:21:25 UTC 
Got fixed in bug 652489

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 652489 ***