How to make KDE Spectacle automatically save a picture?

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The "PrtScr" key in KDE in Ubuntu 18.04 invokes "spectacle", which pops up as a separate window. You can click "save and exit" to save a screenshot. The hotkeys that launch Spectacle appear to be defined in /usr/share/khotkeys/spectacle.khotkeys .

Is there a way of changing the settings so that it "just saves the screenshot" (i.e. there's no clumsy sequence of "press PrtScn, go to where spectacle has launched, press Save and Exit" each time)?

ditto - this seems like the single most obvious setting you'd want in a screenshot application. auto-save, yaaa??? — Marc Compere, Sep 21 '20 at 18:40

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 19 '23 at 00:08

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You can use shortcut keys.

Meta+Print will take a screenshot of the active window.

Shift+Print will take a screenshot of your entire desktop, i.e. all monitors.

Meta+Shift+Print will take a rectangular region screenshot.

https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/spectacle/spectacle/starting.html

edited Jun 19 '23 at 00:08

ggurbet

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answered Feb 13 '19 at 07:12

ElvisVinicius

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Thanks - "Meta+PrtSc" etc. don't have the "save and exit" dialog that "PrtSc" on its own does, and taking a screenshot of the active window is what I'm looking for most often. – SomeoneElse Feb 14 '19 at 08:07

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 04 '22 at 22:32

Enter Settings > Shortcuts > Custom Shortcuts
Create new custom group ie "Spectacle": Edit > New Group
And create new custom shortcut(s): Edit > New > Global Shortcut > Command/URL
fill the name, e.g. "Region Capture"
Trigger: Print
And in Action Tab put the following in Command/URL

spectacle -brc -o "$HOME/pictures/screenshots/Screenshot_$(date +'%Y%m%d_%H%M%S').png"

Save the config
Press PrintScreen button or the one that you configured before
Click twice and voilà :)

How to make KDE Spectacle automatically save a picture?

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