Since my new plaything, a Thinkpad T14 Gen 1, has the Print key in such a prominent place (between AltGr and right Ctrl), I thought I should add some keyboard shortcuts to use it with Shutter, my preferred screenshot tool.
And guess what I discovered and totally missed all these years? Cinnamon has a plethora of useful screenshot shortcuts already built in! You can check these out by going to System Settings → Hardware → Keyboard → Shortcuts. Then, in Categories, select System → Screenshots and Recording, and you’ll find these:
- Take a screenshot of an area (
Shift+Print) - Copy a screenshot of an area to clipboard (
Shift+Ctrl+Print) - Take a screenshot (
Print) - Copy a screenshot to clipboard (
Ctrl+Print) - Take a screenshot of a window (
Alt+Print) - Copy a screenshot of a window to clipboard (
Ctrl+Alt+Print) - Toggle recording desktop (must restart Cinnamon)[1] (
Shift+Ctrl+Alt+R; displays a red “recording dot” in the tray, saves a.webmvideo to your Videos folder)
How cool is that! And I didn’t know about these for about 13 years… (because I’ve been using Shutter and SimpleScreenRecorder forever and a day.)
These really come in handy if you have to document things often.
Restarting Cinnamon is only needed if you change the key combination! ↩︎
