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I am trying to replicate the way windows snipping tool behaves on ubuntu 22.04
from my understanding, gnome-screenshot is ubuntu's default screenshotting tool.

When using the "selection" tool it's possible to select an area on screen and press the "capture" gui button to take the area snip. It's annoying to me to have to specifically press that capture button. I would like the snipping tool to take that snip on mouse release (after selecting an area, just like windows) instead...

I would have been fine with it if numpad-enter would have worked too but it seems that only the regular large enter can trigger the capture for me.

Are there any settings (or alternative snipping tool) that allows to capture the selected area on mouse release?

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    You've not provided your Ubuntu release details; and gnome-screenshot is not installed for all releases as its not the default tool unless you're asking about a rather old release. What Ubuntu release are you asking about? (gnome-screenshot was a GTK3 tool, and GNOME has been GTK4 for some time now, including the last two LTS releases)
    – guiverc
    Commented 4 hours ago
  • I am on 22.04 - I see that gnome-screenshot isn't available on this system so what you're saying makes sense. I am not sure what the default screenshot tool is then
    – Yorai Levi
    Commented 4 hours ago
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    It is best to test and choose the tool yourself, a recommendation may be heelpful but you might not get one. This might be helpful tecmint.com/take-or-capture-desktop-screenshots-in-ubuntu-linux
    – amar
    Commented 1 hour ago

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