Re: Print Screen isn't working (7.0.5)
Hello Andrew,
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 07:25:33PM -0400, Andrew wrote:
> Dear Klaus et al,
>
> Please advise! Neither Ctrl+Print Scr nor Alt+Print Scr seem to do
> anything. In prior versions they would capture from the screen and
> present a dialog box asking what to do with the image.
>
> I'm using default settings, which means lxsession, metacity, lxpanel,
> pcmanfm. (Compiz will not run on this machine, so it is like using no3d
> cheatcode.)
That's (part of) the reason why you get no dialog when hitting PrintScr.
> Also, Alt+F1 and Alt+F2 don't do anything, either. (They used to launch
> the lxpanel menu and run dialog.)
In GTK3, custom hotkeys were removed from the metacity window manager,
while compiz still uses its own set. Therefore, Alt-F1, Alt-F2 and
PrintScreen ceased to work in the "no3d" metacity window manager while
they still work in compiz. There is not much that I can do about this
right now except for hoping that the upstream maintainers of metacity
will enable hotkey support again some time (and document how they are
configured). :-/
> (Ctrl+Alt+F1, etc. do work just fine.)
These special hotkeys are handled by Xorg, not by the window manager.
> Any advice on how to capture screen shots? Thank you.
As you can guess from compiz settings, I use "gnome-screenshot" for
capturing and printing the screen, so calling
gnome-screenshot -i
will do about the same as the PrintScr hotkey did before it was removed.
Regards
-Klaus
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