How do I take a partial screenshot in KDE?

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Thanks Michael!!


On 2022-11-10 20:11, Michael Butash wrote:
> In Spectacle, set the Capture Mode Area to rectangular region, then
> you can play with delay if you need to click on something then shoot
> it in a few seconds.
> 
> Works like a champ usually, I use it mostly every day.
> 
> -mb
> 
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 7:08 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
> <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am running Kubuntu 22.04.
>> 
>> I would like to be able to take a snippet (specific region) of my
>> screen, not the entire screen.
>> 
>> My research shows that I can use spectacle take a screen shot,
>> however I
>> am not finding that I can take a portion of the screen.
>> 
>> Then I ran into this :
>> 
>> ==================
>> Do you want to capture the image of your entire screen? A specific
>> region? A specific window?
>> 
>> If you just want a simple screenshot without any annotations/fancy
>> editing capabilities, the default keyboard shortcuts will do the
>> trick.
>> These are not specific to Ubuntu. Almost all Linux distributions and
>> 
>> desktop environments support these keyboard shortcuts.
>> 
>> Let’s take a look at the list of keyboard shortcuts you can
>> utilize:
>> 
>> PrtSc – Save a screenshot of the entire screen to the
>> “Pictures”
>> directory.
>> Shift + PrtSc – Save a screenshot of a specific region to
>> Pictures.
>> Alt + PrtSc  – Save a screenshot of the current window to
>> Pictures.
>> Ctrl + PrtSc – Copy the screenshot of the entire screen to the
>> clipboard.
>> Shift + Ctrl + PrtSc – Copy the screenshot of a specific region to
>> the
>> clipboard.
>> Ctrl + Alt + PrtSc – Copy the screenshot of the current window to
>> the
>> clipboard.
>> ===================
>> 
>> Ok, it looks like I have spectacle installed by default.  I tried
>> "Shift
>> + PrtSc" and I got the entire screen.  Image quality seems decent.
>> If I
>> have to I can edit the screenshot.  Would like to avoid that extra
>> step.
>> 
>> Any Thoughts?
>> 
>> Thanks!!
>> Keith
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