print screen

[Stephen M. Webb]

On 11/12/2014 06:50 AM, Raymond House wrote:
> I get the screenshot window when I try that command, and by the way, screenshot works ok, it's the print screen that
> does not.

Normally the Print Screen (or "PrtScn SysRq" on my keyboard) key is mapped to the gnome-printscreen application by the
gnome-session daemon (run automatically when you log in in order to do things like that).  That's how the print screen
function works: it runs the gnome-screenshot application.  If the application runs OK from the command line (as you
indicate), it's likely that the cause is the key mapping has been set to something else.

Note that on a freshly-installed Ubuntu Vivid system, pressing the Print Screen key still works as expected.  I suspect
a local configuration issue.

How to identify the exact setting isn't something I can help with, but at least this information can help narrow down
the search for the cause.

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