Screencopy

[Peter Lewis]

Alternatively make a symbolic link with your choice of name:

~$ whereis spectacle
spectacle: /usr/bin/spectacle
~$ whereis kprintscreen
kprintscreen:
~$ sudo cp -s /usr/bin/spectacle /usr/bin/kprintscreen
[sudo] password for yourname:
~$ whereis kprintscreen
kprintscreen: /usr/bin/kprintscreen
~$ 

First locate spectacle then ensure that there is not already a file bearing the 
name you would like. Make a symbolic link with the name you require and then 
check it has been made OK.

You now have a command called 'kprintscreen' and if you type it at a command 
prompt you will get it. 

You can also edit your Application Launcher to include 'kprintscreen' in the 
Applications Utilities section. This could be done by renaming the Spectacle 
entry or by adding an entry to your favourite name. This way you do not have 
to make the symbolic link; it is really only required if you invoke the 
application from a command line.

There are always many ways to do anything in Linux/Unix/GNU!


Peter


On Monday, 22 February 2021 09:24:10 GMT Ianseeks wrote:
> On Monday, 22 February 2021 09:13:21 GMT Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > El día lunes, febrero 22, 2021 a las 07:59:37a. m. +0000, Ianseeks 
escribió:
> > > On Monday, 22 February 2021 07:22:48 GMT Bernd Nachtigall wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > who decided the name of the default sceencopy tool (Spectecle) in KDE?
> > > > 
> > > > I use it not often. So it is not at an prominent place. I use Alt-F2
> > > > to
> > > > get it quickly if I need it. But each time it is a PITA to remember
> > > > the
> > > > name of this tool.
> > > > 
> > > > Name it KPrintScreen, KScreenPrint, ... or whatever but include the
> > > > function in the name.
> > > > 
> > > > Bernd
> > > 
> > > I agree its not an obvious name but you could just press "Print Screen"
> > > button, on my system it automatically loads "spectacle"> 
> > I'm in the same situation and my netbook Acer C720's keyboard does not
> > have a PrintScreen button. Naming an application with something so far
> > away of its use case just violates the POLA.
> > 
> > 	matthias
> 
> Don't chromebooks have their own method with Ctrl+Switch Window or
> Ctrl+Shift+Switch Window or can you reconfigure those key combinations to
> launch spectacle?