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.

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

It looks like they've recently removed this in the newest versions on GNOME, but you can reinstate it by combining some of the existing answers here, specifically:

1. Go to Settings > Keyboard > View and Customize Shortcuts > Custom Shortcuts.

2. Click the + and create a new shortcut with:
   Command gnome-screenshot -acf /tmp/gnome-screenshot-area
   Shortcut Shift + Ctrl + Print

Note: saving the screenshot to file is intentional (thanks @grabantot).

Another note: I switched back to Wayland, which seems to have broken this method.

Answer 5

I had some issues with getting the custom selection to copy to clipboard. What worked for me is: gnome-screenshot --area -c

Answer 6

I think Gnome has removed this copy to clipboard feature is the newest version. So you can try the following method.

1. Install gnome-screenshot by this command:

   sudo apt install gnome-screenshot

2. Now go to Settings > Keyboard > View and Customize Shortcuts > Custom Shortcuts > Click the + sign and create a now shortcut. Give the shortcut name as you want and the command should be: gnome-screenshot --area -c and then set a shortcut by pressing the keyboard keys as you want.

screenshot of step 2