Spectacle/Tutorials/Invoking Spectacle with custom shortcuts

The default way to capture your screen to a file is to press the PrintScreen key. The program Spectacle will pop up. It allows you to capture

• the complete screen
• single windows
• a rectangular region on the screen

However, some people want their screenshots to be stored without any further interaction. This can be useful during documentation work when you want to do a lot of screenshots without interrupting work. One solution is to set up Shift+PrintScreen to trigger a screenshot. To do this

• start System Settings, navigate to Shortcuts -> Custom Shortcuts -> Take Full Screen Screenshot

• click on Trigger -> Shortcut and press Shif+Printscreen. Shift+Print should then appears in the button:

Setting up Shift+PrintScreen as global shortcut

• click on Apply

Now whenever you press Shift+PrintScreen your screen will be saved to your Pictures folder with a timestamp in its name, e.g. Screenshot_20190107_224731.png.

More Information

• System Settings/Custom Shortcuts
• Spectacle [[Category:Tutorials]