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Did the screenshot shortcut keys change in 17.10?
Those documented on https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/screen-shot-record.html no longer work, and if I create an additional one from the keyboard settings to run gnome-screenshot it's simply ignored.
I had it work perfectly before this update.
You can hold CTrl and Shift and Print Screen and it will save it to your clipboard instead of your Pictures directory
The shortcuts still work. The change is that screenshots are now automatically saved to the Pictures folder in your home directory.
Some keyboard shortcuts no longer work with Ubuntu 17.10 Unity. Here is my workaround:
sudo aptitude install compizconfig-settings-manager
ccsm &
Goto "Commands" under "General". Under the "Commands" tab add /usr/bin/gnome-screenshot in one of the (empty) lines. Goto next tab "Keybindings". Press the "Disabled" button on the line corresponding to the line where you added /usr/bin/gnome-screenshot. Press "Grab key combination" in the popup window and press Print. Press Ok to close the popup window. The button on the line in the ccsmwindow should now show as Print. You can now close the ccsm window.
Test with Print. The familiar "Screenshot" window with filename selection should now appear.
Multiple other keybindings can be added, e.g., one to gnome-screenshot -a for an area-selected screenshot.
