now works like this: select region -> delay -> done (this is often uncomfortable) need like this: delay -> screenshot fullscreen -> select a region in the finished screenshot of the entire screen -> done or, which is always better, done optionally ) grateful
(In reply to grayich from comment #0) > need like this: > delay -> screenshot fullscreen -> select a region in the finished > screenshot of the entire screen -> done You can use: sleep 5; xfce4-screenshooter -f Once the screenshot is taken select "Open with: GIMP" (or whatever image editing app you fancy) then crop the selection you need. I'm not saying screenshooter will never have an option to edit screenshots, but I'm not motivated to implement this because we may start with a cropping option, then people will want to draw red rectangles, then arrows, then text, then emojis.... In the end, screenshooter will have its own built-in gimp and that goes against the "do one thing and do it well" philosophy that is more or less followed by Xfce.
the current version of the region is practically not in demand because can't see what to crop for example, you need to take a picture of a drop-down menu it takes time to call up the menu here the delay option will be really useful I didn’t invent it this is how most screen capture programs work.
Andre has agreed on IRC that this can be implemented ( delay -> select region -> capture ) and in order to preserve the current behaviour we'd have a checkbox and CLI option to toggle between the two behaviours. Either this one or my bug (bug 16494) should be closed as a duplicate.
*** Bug 16494 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Since #16494 has been closed I will add a snippet of my comment here: > I know for sure that functionality was different some time ago, thus the screenshots were taken immediately after the region has been selected. Current behaviour when selecting a region can be replicated by: xfce4-screenshooter -rd <whatever value is set in "Delay before capturing" field> Should be: xfce4-screenshooter -r Thank you
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