Do not save screenshot as file (22.04)

Question

For privacy reasons, it is important that screenshots are NOT saved as a file (only clipboard), but this is not possible anymore in the last upgrade.

Any way to get the old behavior back?

EDIT: I tried to add a custom shortcut with command gnome-screenshot -a -c, but it does not save anything to clipboard. See this post

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 27 '22 at 14:24

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From this thread, one can use this dirty workaround:

Name: gnome-screenshot
Command:

sh -c "gnome-screenshot -af /tmp/clipboard-img.png && xclip -i -selection clipboard -target image/png /tmp/clipboard-img.png && rm /tmp/clipboard-img.png"
Shortcut: whatever suits you

answered Jun 27 '22 at 14:24

fffred

That does save to disk... and it IS possible to lock and copy the file before the rm :-) – Rinzwind Jun 27 '22 at 14:26
This isn't perfect, but changing /tmp to /dev/shm may help this work better (it still risks screenshot data being saved to the swapfile IIRC). – ArrayBolt3 Jun 27 '22 at 16:30
gnome-screenshot -c ?? – Hannu Jun 27 '22 at 16:56
gnome-sick? Use the xfce4-screenshooter. – kanehekili Jun 27 '22 at 20:01

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