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DEBIAN, UBUNTU, XFCE, SHORT CUTS, SCREENSHOOTS, KEYBOARD

Keyboard shortcuts customs for Ubuntu/Debian (Gnome, XFCE) Auto save screenshots

Gnome (Ubuntu/Debian)

Disable-auto-group_by_application-switch-shorthcut (Debian, Linux Mint)

  1. settings > keyboard
  2. keyboard shortcuts > customize
  3. find: switch windows
  4. use Alt+Tab as a shortcut
  5. save and exit

terminal shortcut (Debian)

  1. settings > keyboard
  2. keyboard shortcuts > customize shortcus > custom shortcut
  3. Add shortcut 3.1 Name: Terminal 3.2 Command: gnome-terminal 3.3 Shortcut: Ctrl + Alt + T
  4. find: switch windows
  5. use Alt+Tab as a shortcut
  6. save and exit

XFCE

Reemplace screenshot box dialog for screenshot region selection and save in clipboard and save in pictures without asking

  1. Keyboard
  2. Shortcuts
  3. Add 3.1 Command:/home/lupita/Documents/screenshots-man.sh 3.2 Use Print key as shortcut

Content of screenshots-man.sh


#!/bin/bash

xfce4-screenshooter -c -r -s "$HOME/Pictures/Screenshots/Screenshot $(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S').png"

3.3 Add run permissions 3.4 With zsh does not work, so I had to use bin/sh to excute the command

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