SUMMARY Keyboard shortcut for "Launch Spectacle" will always capture the full screen (or the previously selected area option) instead of the selected area option until a screenshot is taken with the "Take a New Screenshot" button. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open Spectacle or change the area option 2. Press the key combination for the Launch Spectacle shortcut OBSERVED RESULT Spectacle captures the full screen or the last selected area option before the "Take a New Screenshot" button was pressed. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux: Arch Linux (5.4.5-arch1-1) KDE Plasma Version: 5.17.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.65.0 Qt Version: 5.13.2
Yes, that's what this key does. If you want to launch Spectacle and immediately capture a different kind of screenshot, you need to use a different keyboard shortcut. You can see the options in Spectacle's settings window > Shortcuts.
The other shortcuts are only for capturing a specific kind of screenshot and not whatever that is currently selected Shouldn't this shortcut do exactly what the "Take a New Screenshot" button does when Spectacle is already open? I still think this is a bug (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) > Yes, that's what this key does. If you want to launch Spectacle and > immediately capture a different kind of screenshot, you need to use a > different keyboard shortcut. You can see the options in Spectacle's settings > window > Shortcuts.
Oh you mean that when Spectacle is already running, pressing printscreen should take a screenshot according to what's in the combobox, exactly as if the "Take a new screenshot" button had been pressed?
Yeah exactly, instead it captures the full screen or the option that was selected the last time the "Take a New Screenshot" button was pressed like I said in the original post (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #3) > Oh you mean that when Spectacle is already running, pressing printscreen > should take a screenshot according to what's in the combobox, exactly as if > the "Take a new screenshot" button had been pressed?
Thanks, now I understand!
Git commit a9c01acfaf66ebd3d3cee518640a9f8488d86f1d by David Redondo. Committed on 31/01/2020 at 10:03. Pushed by davidre into branch 'master'. Take screenshot with currently selected options Summary: If Spectacle is running and the user activates the shortcut to start Spectacle while he has the option "Take a new Screenshot" selected use the current settings ad configured in the window and not those of the last taken Screenshot FIXED-IN: 20.04.0 Test Plan: Open Spectacle, press print screen Reviewers: #spectacle, ngraham Reviewed By: #spectacle, ngraham Tags: #spectacle Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D26929 M +3 -5 src/SpectacleCore.cpp https://commits.kde.org/spectacle/a9c01acfaf66ebd3d3cee518640a9f8488d86f1d