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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] Spectacle
From:       Todd Rme <toddrme2178 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2017-05-15 12:02:33
Message-ID: CADb7s=sB0O3LxZttLaey7FSU_kjJMM-FXzc8LbDv4p861G_BbA () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 7:35 PM, Carlos E. R.
<robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
> On 2017-05-15 00:35, Felix Miata wrote:
>> Patrick Shanahan composed on 2017-05-14 18:14 (UTC-0400):
>
>
>>>>> a simple reminder to help the most fault of memories:
>>>>>   tie it to the <prtscrn> key
>>
>>>> Which helps how? I'm not trying to send anything to a printer when I want to
>>>> capture a jpg of a GUI screen.
>>
>>> duh, <prtscrn> has to do a screen capture and then *you* tell it what to
>>> do with the captured screen.  you do not have to *print* the screen, you
>>> *can* save the file.
>>
>> The mechanics of how PrintScreen does what it does is zero help. Last time I hit
>> that key on purpose I still had a working dot matrix parallel printer and was
>> booted to DOS. Only thing I ever used it for on purpose was putting BIOS 80x25
>> or SVGA text (132xNn) screen content on paper. Other strikings took an eternity
>> for the printer to get quiet. The key says "Print", not "now what?".
>
> For about two decades the PrtScreen key in Linux X does not print. It
> has always captured the screen instead.
>
> Unfortunately Linux is not powerful enough to tell the keyboard industry
> to rename the key.

Same in Windows, actually (although until recently it only copied it
to the clipboard rather than opening a full-fledged application).  If
even windows can't get them to change the name, then no one can.

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