I’m in Cinnamon.
I recently gave up a long-time use of gnome-screenshot to sample others.
I didn’t like a lot of popular ones, but I do enjoy xfce4-screenshooter from our extra repo, so I installed it and I use it.
you don’t select anything when saving, that is normal.
And gnome-screenshot always showed me a preview before I saved…so I made an assumption that was supposed to be functional.
I think I get it.
It tells me straight up to select something…so if you are saving, then it’s just wasted space (my opinion).
Curveball, thanks for indulging me.