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I was wondering if there is a way of skipping gnome-screenshot prompt when pressing printscreen in order to record the file directly to a folder and also skipping the annoying shutter sound.

Does anyone have an idea or alternative? I used to use Purrint for a long time under Windows and I'm missing it right now.

Thanks a lot for any clue, note, enlightenment, comment ;)

pomsky
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Jack
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  • By default print button shouldn't show the prompt window, it should just take a screenshot of the whole screen with a shutter sound. Anyway I think I can help. I'm working on an answer. – pomsky Oct 13 '17 at 19:19

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Go to settings -> keyboard -> custom shortcut. Add a new one, give it the name you want, and as a command write gnome-screenshot save it, then assign it the key you prefer. Note that if you try to assign the printscreen key, it will ask to reassign it because it's already use.

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  • This only solves the prompt issue (which is fixed in Ubuntu 18.04), but not the flashing and shutter issue. – l0b0 Dec 19 '19 at 23:25
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I can think of two possible ways to meet your goal.

1. Tweaking GNOME Screenshot

1.1. Disabling prompt window

If you run the command

gnome-screenshot --interactive

the following window should pop up:
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But if you run

gnome-screenshot

a shot of your whole screen should be saved to your Pictures folder without any delay (but there will be a mechanical camera shutter sound and the screen will blink once).

For convenience you may set a keyboard shortcut for this gnome-screenshot command (see this Q&A for a detailed method of doing it). You may choose any keyboard combination which doesn't cause any conflict, for example Super+Print.

Once you set this keyboard shortcut, logout and login again. Now whenever you press Super+Print a shot of the whole screen should be saved in your Pictures folder without showing any prompt.

1.2. Disabling shutter sound

The camera shutter sound you hear when a screenshot is captured comes from the camera-shutter.oga file located at /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo. So removing/renaming this file should get rid of the shutter sound.

But I would not suggest anyone to do that. Among other things this camera-shutter.oga file will be restored after updating some associated package(s).

2. Using other applications

You may ditch gnome-screenshot completely and try some better alternative. I would suggest Shutter. You can install it from the Software Centre or by running

sudo apt-get install shutter

Once installed the following command will capture your whole screen and save it in your Pictures folder

shutter -f -e

The -f option makes sure the whole screen is captured and the -e option quits the programme once the screenshot is saved.

Like before you may set a keyboard shortcut for this shutter -f -e command, for example Super+Print.

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pomsky
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mute "system sounds" in sound settings makes also gnome screenshot quiet, and it is not global, and from gnome-44 onwards also selecting a "none" for the sound theme has the same effect: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/6376

see also: https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/735126/

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