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@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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