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Connect Wayland screenshot tool to ksnip

rated 0 times [ 2] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 410 / 3 Years ago, wed, may 26, 2021, 5:20:57

We use ksnip as a company-standard cross platform screenshot annotation tool.
When switching to Wayland, I can take only screenshots via the portal, which is not very efficient.

Is it possible to launch ksnip automatically after taking a screenshot with the gnome / wayland screenshot tool which is default in Ubuntu 22.04 ?
(how is that tool called?)

Currently, as a workaround, I can take a screenshot, copy to clipboard, open ksnip, annoate, export which is very cumbersome.

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answered 3 Years ago allally · Accepted Answer

I think I will bind an additional shortcut for opening ksnip with the clipboard contents to the following script:

xclip -selection clipboard -t image/png -o | ksnip -e -

Thus I can take a screenshot using the standard tool, copy to clipboard (Ctrl+C) and press my new short cut (Is used Ctrl+Shift+Alt+K)

An improvement would be to also simulate pressing Ctrl+C in that shortcut.

But xdotool key 'ctrl+c' did not work for me.

Remark: There is currently a small bug in ksnip, which makes this working not perfect yet, but overall its a good solution for me.

EDIT :I nthe latest nightly that bug is solved in ksnip.