On 2017-05-15 00:35, Felix Miata wrote:
Patrick Shanahan composed on 2017-05-14 18:14 (UTC-0400):
a simple reminder to help the most fault of memories: tie it to the <prtscrn> key
Which helps how? I'm not trying to send anything to a printer when I want to capture a jpg of a GUI screen.
duh, <prtscrn> has to do a screen capture and then *you* tell it what to do with the captured screen. you do not have to *print* the screen, you *can* save the file.
The mechanics of how PrintScreen does what it does is zero help. Last time I hit that key on purpose I still had a working dot matrix parallel printer and was booted to DOS. Only thing I ever used it for on purpose was putting BIOS 80x25 or SVGA text (132xNn) screen content on paper. Other strikings took an eternity for the printer to get quiet. The key says "Print", not "now what?".
For about two decades the PrtScreen key in Linux X does not print. It has always captured the screen instead. Unfortunately Linux is not powerful enough to tell the keyboard industry to rename the key. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" (Minas Tirith))