Take a screenshot 23.04

[Volker Wysk]

Am Donnerstag, dem 15.06.2023 um 15:41 +0100 schrieb Peter Flynn:
> On 15/06/2023 15:28, Jerry Geis wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 10:19 AM Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de 
> > <mailto:post at volker-wysk.de>> wrote:
> > 
> >     Hi.
> > 
> >     Am Donnerstag, dem 15.06.2023 um 10:12 -0400 schrieb Jerry Geis:
> >      > When I click Activites - search for screenshot - an item comes up as
> >      > "Take a screenshot"
> >      >
> >      > I cannot RIGHT click on it and "add to Favorites" ????
> >      >
> >      > Why not ?  how do I add it to favoritets.
> > 
> >     When you want to take a screenshot, you can just press the Print
> >     Screen key.
> 
> If I do this, the screen blinks momentarily, but there is nothing to let 
> me choose where to save it or what to call it. I don't even know where 
> it has put it.
> 
> [later]
> It turns out that it *has* used the same Screenshot app as the one in 
> Menu > Accessories, because the Screenshot icon (which I put on the 
> toolbar so I could find it quickly) has lit up red, and I can bring up 
> the screenshot "Save" panel. Odd that it doesn't bring it to the 
> foreground by itself. But impressively, it has correctly screenshot 
> *both* my monitors (one landscape and one portrait) – not that I would 
> ever need that, but good to know. 99% of the time I want to pick the 
> area to screenshot, not the whole screen or even window.

Here, in my German language system, the screenshots get stored in
~/Bilder/Bildschirmfotos. That should be ~/Pictures/Screenshots or
~/Images/Screenshots.

Bye, Volker
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