Requirements:

• Take screenshots with win+shift+s.
• Screenshot should be copied to clipboard so it can be pasted into other applications.
• Screenshot should be saved into a file so it can be referred to later.

Scope:

• KDE running on Debian stable

tags | screen snip

# Go to Custom Shortcuts
K Menu -> System Settings -> Workspace -> Shortcuts -> Custom Shortcuts
# Create a new custom group called Spectacle
-> Edit -> New Group -> give it a name, say, "Spectacle"
-> Click on the checkbox next to Spectacle
# create new custom shortcut(s)
-> Edit > New > Global Shortcut > Command/URL
--> Give it a name, say, "PrintScreen Clipboard Rectangular"
--> Comment: Copy the screenshot into clipboard and also save it to a file.
--> Trigger: Meta+Shift+S
# The output directory will be created if it does not already exist.
--> Action: Command/URL: spectacle -bcr -o "$HOME/Pictures/Screenshots/Screenshot from $(date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S').png"
-> Apply

• Can take screenshots using Win+Shift+s
• Screenshots can be pasted into other applications such as lowriter using ctrl+v
• Screenshots are stored in ~/Pictures/Screenshots

  rajulocal@hogwarts ~ % ls -1 ~/Pictures/Screenshots
  'Screenshot from 2023-04-24 17:32:36.png'
  'Screenshot from 2023-04-24 18:14:57.png'

• Tested on

  % spectacle --version
  spectacle 20.12.3
  
  % cat /etc/os-release 
  PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)"
  NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
  VERSION_ID="11"
  VERSION="11 (bullseye)"
  VERSION_CODENAME=bullseye
  ID=debian
  HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
  SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
  BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"
  
  % uname -a
  Linux hogwarts 5.10.0-17-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.136-1 (2022-08-13) x86_64 GNU/Linux

• https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?t=140137 - I found the above solution here. I just aggregated it into a single post for easy reference. All the credit goes to the original authors.

• https://askubuntu.com/a/1465109/574082 - I posted the above solution to askubuntu.

After adding this, I have

rajulocal@hogwarts ~/.config % git grep -i --no-index "PrintScreen Clipboard Rectangular"
kglobalshortcutsrc:{3d9c7702-3955-4696-a8d5-89bd46f488ac}=Meta+Shift+S,none,PrintScreen Clipboard Rectangular
khotkeysrc:Name=PrintScreen Clipboard Rectangular