Creating a Shortcut to Take Regional Screen Shots in Xubuntu

Xubuntu has several standard keyboard shortcuts to take screen shots:

  • Print-Screen → Captures entire screen
  • ALT + Print-Screen → Captures current window

However it is missing a shortcut that lets the user use the mouse to select capture regions.
Well, here is how to set it up.

  1. Open the Application menu → Settings → Settings Manager
  2. Open Keyboard → Application Shortcuts
  3. Click Add
  4. Type xfce4-screenshooter -r as the command
  5. Click OK
  6. It will now prompt for the key combination. I used SHIFT + Print-Screen.

Press SHIFT + Print-Screen and select the area you wish to capture.

You can setup any shortcut you want this. I like to set CTRL + Print-Screen as window capture with mouse. To do this use xfce4-screenshooter -w -m as the command.