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How to save screenshot both to clipboard and disk?

rated 0 times [ 1] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 1068 / 2 Years ago, mon, july 25, 2022, 6:12:44

I am trying achieve such behavior that screenshot is saved both to the disk and to clipboard. Been digging through these questions, but it's not coming together.

What is the terminal command to take a screenshot?

What is the command line equivalent of copying a file to clipboard?

Main problem being that I can't really copy the image to the clipboard to paste it with Ctrl+V.

Is there anything else I might want to consider ?

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answered 2 Years ago avilyexplor · Accepted Answer

I want to thank both @vanadium and @pLumo for their answers, which were very helpful, but both of used utilities have their own disadvantages and bugs at least on my system, so I finally went with combination of two approaches

#!/bin/bash



OUT_FILENAME=Screenshot from $(date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S").png

OUT_PATH=~/Pictures/$OUT_FILENAME



gnome-screenshot -a -f $OUT_PATH

xclip -sel clip < /dev/null

xclip -selection clip -t image/png $OUT_PATH