gnome-screenshot copy to clipboard shortcut

Question

I use MATE as desktop viewer. How can I add a shortcut for taking a screenshot of a part of the windows and copy it to the clipboard? Basically what with gnome the command control-shift-stamp.

Solution 1

I found out the solution. First, open the shortcut dialog window and press add to add a new shortcut. Then paste this code:

gnome-screenshot -a -c

For other useful gnome-screenshot command, from the terminal: gnome-screenshot --help

Solution 2

There are a set of keyboard shortcuts in Ubuntu specifically for screenshots.

Go to System Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Screenshots. In my case it is Ctrl+Shift+Print_Screen

Solution 3

For Gnome, copying portion of the screen to clipboard is Ctrl+Shift+PrtScrn.

Comments

[Jason Southwell]

Could you provide a screenshot of this? (Or a little more detail?)

[David Foerster]

It would be good for other readers, if you accept your own answer (see Can I answer my own question?).

[Soldeplata Saketos Candela]

Just open settings, and into keyboard you find something like this: i.stack.imgur.com/z1xXQ.png

[LondonRob]

"Copy a screenshot of an area to clipboard" has changed my life! My old workflow was to crop with GIMP. This is much better.

[marcdahan]

outdated answer

[Admin]

The screenshot doesn't appear in the clipboard. I believe this is due to some issue with gnome that it doesn't preserve the values in clipboard after the application that added the value exits or something like that. Had a similar issue with using xclip in scripts.

[Admin]

You have to do this manually starting in Gnome 41+ - what I'm finding is that occasionally my shortcut just stops working... but perhaps that's another issue to figure out.

[Admin]

Found the solution here askubuntu.com/a/1212806/626636