Copy screenshot to clipboard, automatically

[Leandro Resende Mattioli]

Greetings,

WindowMaker already supports the 3 types of screen capture (full screen,
window or rectangular region), saving the images in
~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Screenshots.

I was wondering if it could, as it happens in some other window
managers, automatically copy the PNG data to the X11 clipboard.

This is a time saver in many applications: typing CTRL+V instead of
having to click some button and reaching the file in a file chooser
dialog. The "paste" workflow is much better, for example, within
WhatsApp and GIMP.

I don't know the amount of effort necessary to accomplish this; it's
only a suggestion.

Thanks in advance.

Leandro

[Kostas Michalopoulos]

One alternative to Window Maker's internal capture is to use an external
tool that does that. For example KDE's Spectacle tool which handles
screen capture and not only it provides screeshots for fullscreen,
window, rectangular area, etc but also allows you to specify if the shot
will have borders, mouse cursor, etc and you can do some minimal editing
in it (crop, add arrows, text, etc) which is helpful for pasting in
chats, documents, etc.

To do this you need to clear the shortcuts from the Window Maker
keyboard shortcuts settings for Capture and then create new menu entries
for the Print key to call the tool. For example you can create menu
entries for `spectacle -f` and Print for fullscreen capture, `spectacle
-a` and Ctrl+Print for active window capture and `spectacle -r` and
Mod1+Print for region capture. After the capture Spectacle will open the
captured image in a window which you can save with an automatically
generated name, save it in a filename you specify, copy it to clipboard,
pass it to other tools (e.g. Krita, GIMP, etc), edit it or allow you to
make new captures.

Kostas

[Glen Walker]

You beat me to it…I was going to suggest the same but the one I use is flameshot which also has a lot of different ways to configure it although I typically just hit F2 and then open it with “flameshot gui”

Hope that helps!

Glen

> On 24 Nov 2025, at 17:38, Kostas Michalopoulos <badsect...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> One alternative to Window Maker's internal capture is to use an external tool that does that. For example KDE's Spectacle tool which handles screen capture and not only it provides screeshots for fullscreen, window, rectangular area, etc but also allows you to specify if the shot will have borders, mouse cursor, etc and you can do some minimal editing in it (crop, add arrows, text, etc) which is helpful for pasting in chats, documents, etc.

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