Screen Capture - can I use Hotkey to trigger capture?

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I have a 3 monitor setup like this:

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From screen 1, I have some white horizontal likes showing up when I am moving my mouse pointer in it (nothing similar for screen 2 & 3)

When trying to capture those white lines, I failed:

  • Selection capture do not work, as I need to move my mouse over to the Capture control to capture, so cannot trigger the white lines to show up
  • Tried to Capture a Video - but I only capture Screen 3, nothing from Screen 1 nor 2

Can screen caputre be trigger by Hot keys?

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It is not quite clear what desktop environment you are using, but shortcut keys in the default Gnome Desktop are PrtScr for interactive screenshot, Shit+PrtScr for the entire screen, Alt+PrtScr for the current window. Also in other DE’s, the PrtScr key is by default assigned to take screenshots.

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Thank you very much!

I am using Gnome.

PrtScr brings up the Interactive controls - just that I only know to use mouse to trigger the actual capture.

Shift+PrtScr works for the entire screen (3 screens for my setup)
Alt-PrtScr works for the active Window capture.

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Once you have opened the capture with PrtScr and selected what you want to capture then the Enter key will actually take the screenshot.

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No - Enter key did nothing in my setup.