On OSX, I can easily take a picture of desktop using keyboard combinations (Shift-Option-3 or 4). And the images are automatically created in my desktop.
How do I simulate this on Kubuntu?
Thanks
On OSX, I can easily take a picture of desktop using keyboard combinations (Shift-Option-3 or 4). And the images are automatically created in my desktop.
How do I simulate this on Kubuntu?
Thanks
Taking a picture of the desktop using keyboard shortcut and the image is automatically saved to the user desktop
Using Spectacle - KDE Framework 5 default screenshot capture utility:
$ spectacle --help
Usage: spectacle [options]
KDE Screenshot Utility
Options:
-v, --version Displays version information.
-h, --help Displays this help.
--author Show author information.
--license Show license information.
--desktopfile <file name> The base file name of the desktop entry for this
application.
-f, --fullscreen Capture the entire desktop (default)
-m, --current Capture the current monitor
-a, --activewindow Capture the active window
-u, --windowundercursor Capture the window currently under the cursor,
including parents of pop-up menus
-t, --transientonly Capture the window currently under the cursor,
excluding parents of pop-up menus
-r, --region Capture a rectangular region of the screen
-g, --gui Start in GUI mode (default)
-b, --background Take a screenshot and exit without showing the GUI
-s, --dbus Start in DBus-Activation mode
-n, --nonotify In background mode, do not pop up a notification
when the screenshot is taken
-o, --output <fileName> In background mode, save image to specified file
-d, --delay <delayMsec> In background mode, delay before taking the shot
(in milliseconds)
-w, --onclick Wait for a click before taking screenshot.
Invalidates delay
Command:
spectacle -f -b -n -o "$HOME/Desktop/ScreenShot-$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S).jpg"
will capture the entire desktop image to the user Desktop folder aka desktop.
The command can be added to the KDE menu with the KDE menu editor: https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kde-workspace/kmenuedit/index.html
The command can be launched with the user defined shortcut:
When the shortcut is clicked the picture is saved to the desktop:
$HOME/Desktop
I would use $XDG_DESKTOP_DIR
(In my localized KUbuntu 20, the Desktop folder is not named "Desktop")
ksnapshot is the KDE (kubuntu) version of screen capture. It can be launched from the menu or by pressing prt scrn
button
ksnapshot
has been deprecated. The application is now spectacle
. See spectacle --help
.
gnome-screenshot
which will need to be installed because it obviously isn't present by default.
Open System Settings -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts
Select Custom Shortcuts
Click Add Custom Shortcut
Fill fields
Take a screenshot of region
spectacle -r
Click OK
Double-Click one of the unassigned
keyboard bindings
Insert your desired binding. (I'm using Super+Shift+S)
You need to add in Global Shortcuts the Spectacle application. This applications has already a few shortcuts (the importante ones) pre configures but empty. Iǘe attached a picture of my configuration