I want to make it so that when I press the print screen key on my keyboard, it actually includes the cursor. I know that it is calling gnome-screenshot
, but I can't find any way to change the arguments it is using with it. If anyone knows about this, it would be greatly appreciated.
2 Answers
You can do this with dconf-editor but with command line as well. Here are the gsettings
effecting gnome-screenshot
:
Use this command to check current settings:
gsettings get org.gnome.gnome-screenshot include-pointer
false
Use this command to turn on the option:
gsettings set org.gnome.gnome-screenshot include-pointer true
Use the same technique for the other gnome-screenshot
settings.
Note you can get a list of all settings with gsettings list-recursively
. For the screenshot above I used the technique in this answer:
And the one-liner code (works with yad
only) is:
gsettings list-recursively | sed 's/ */\n/;s/ */\n/;s/\&/\&/g' | yad --list --title "gsettings" --item-seperator='\n' --width=1800 --height=800 --wrap-width=600 --column=Group --column=Key --column=Setting --no-markup
man gnome-screenshot
tells us that
-p, --include-pointer Include the pointer with the screenshot.
So you'll need to set up a new keyboard shortcut that incorporates -p
:
Note that gnome-screenshot has a variety of options described in man gnome-screenshot
to
- capture the active window
- capture the whole screen
- capture a selected area
- take a delayed screenshot
You can make your own shortcuts for each of these activities.
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4But how would the OP make it so that the PrintScreen key behaviour is modified to include this argument?– Byte Commander ♦May 25, 2019 at 14:44
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Thanks for the help, the way I am going to do it is adding new shortcuts from the
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button at the bottom of the keyboard menu in settings. May 25, 2019 at 15:01 -
@redstoneguy12 actually askubuntu.com/a/1146146/248158 is really elegant!– DK BoseMay 25, 2019 at 15:14
shutter
have an option to include the cursor or not, and can also do things like delayed screenshots (useful for context menus etc. that would go away when you press a key) or directly edit the resulting image.gnome-screenshot
also provides delay option.