print screen

[Raymond House]

OK Stephen, thanks for the info, I think I recall something I got on log
in, once, about key mapping, but that's way out for my computer knowledge,
but thanks, I'll see if I can dig something up on that.

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Stephen M. Webb <stephen.webb at canonical.com
> wrote:

> 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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