The xfce4-screenshooter program (version 1.8.1-5) saves files as "Screenshot - MMDDYYYY - HH:MM:SS.ext", which breaks cross-OS compatibility with MS Windows. The reason is that MS Windows filenames cannot have the symbol : in filenames, since it is used as a drive letter separator in FAT, FAT32, and NTFS filesystems. There is no configuration option for xfce4-screenshooter, meaning there is no way to set it to save in a different format. I would like to see an option to change the standard filename to something closer to the ISO 8601 standard, with either . or - as a time-separator, similar to the following example: "YYYY-MM-DD - HH.MM.SS.ext" This would solve cross-compatibility with MS Windows, allowing files to be uploaded directly to cross-OS programs like Dropbox without having to manually change the filename after each screenshot was saved. If a future version of the program could have an option to manually change the filename format, that would be great.
This was fixed in 1.8.2 (see bug 8445). Also in versions previous to 1.8.2, you can set "timestamp=false" in ~/.config/xfce4/xfce4-screenshooter to have it not generate the colon-delimited timestamp. See also https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=9251.
(In reply to ToZ from comment #1) > This was fixed in 1.8.2 (see bug 8445). > > Also in versions previous to 1.8.2, you can set "timestamp=false" in > ~/.config/xfce4/xfce4-screenshooter to have it not generate the > colon-delimited timestamp. See also > https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=9251. Someone tell Debian stable to adopt the new build then? (Really the biggest issue with Debian is their slow adoption of fixed versions...)