When trying to capture an area of the screen; specifically a Firefox extension; the context menu disappears when I press Ctrl-Shift-PrintScreen
I am trying to write a little guide for some workmates, this is making it very difficult.
Try using a timer
This is what I do, I can’t speak for Mint’s screenshot tool, but Spectacle for KDE will indeed freeze the whole screen after a set timer - allowing you to open context menus and whatnot. Then on the “frozen” image you can highlight only a specific section of the screen to screenshot, make annotations, etc.
Spectacle is one of the things I miss the most every time I try out GNOME again for a bit.
Testing on my own computer, one workaround appears to be to use unmodified PrintScreen, leaving a hand free for the mouse, and quickly right-click for the context menu after the keypress but before the Save pop-up appears.
A PITA to be sure, but it does capture the context menu.
As for cropping down a full-screen capture, I tend to use PhotoFlare for jobs like that (find it in Software Manager) assuming you haven’t anything else installed that does the job.
Don’t know which screenshot program you use but it probably has a timer option. You can capture open menus after setting a timer.
I tried that and it works perfectly.
But it is kind of a crappy work around for a basic function.
Brother, the shortcut is just Shift + PrintScreen, idk where the Control came from.
Ctrl copies it to the clipboard…
ohhh, i didn’t know that. I have never used the clipboard, whats the difference between getting the image from file and the using the clipboard.
Paste into stuff, no extra file created
