Help?Įdit: I already have the "Print Screen Shortcut - Use PrtScn button to open screen snipping" unchecked. I feel like I've tried just about everything under the sun and I don't know what else to do. Shortcut keys also can open the tool instantly. The Windows' screenshot application looks like this: With the help of Capterra, learn about Lightshot, its features. But when I tried to set it back to prntscrn, when I would press the prntscrn button it would just bring up Windows' screenshot application. Ctrl and Alt keys and then press the P key to execute a screen capture. I read this question - What other tool is using my hotkey? - and tried setting the Lightshot hotkey settings to something other than prntscrn and then back to prntscrn to see if that would work like it did for this person. I also do not have the "automatically save screenshots" box ticked in settings, so that's also not the problem. Note: I do NOT have DropBox installed, so this is not a problem with DropBox. I cannot for the life of me figure out which application is using the printscreen button.
But every time I try to tell Lightshot to use the prntscrn hotkey (by right-clicking Lightshot app, going into Options, and setting it as the General hotkey), I get a notification telling me that there is another application using the prntscrn hotkey. I've uninstalled Windows' Snip and Sketch.
I've tried to look up why this is a problem. But on this new laptop, every time I press printscreen it uses Windows' screenshot system.
But recently, it stopped working even when I turn on and off the privilieges for it, and uninstall/reinstall the app.
Usually, as soon as I download this application, Lightshot uses the prntscrn hotkey, I can press it and use Lightshot fine. I know in the first few months of using macOS Big Sur, my Lightshot app worked fine.
And like before, one of the first things I did after setting up the laptop was download the printscreen application "Lightshot" to take better screenshots than Windows does.
If & tput setaf 1 > /dev/null 2>&1Įcho "$bold$red$2 Exit code = $1.I recently purchased a new laptop that uses Windows 10, like the laptops I've had before. Is_number "$1" || print_error_and_exit 4 "print_error_and_exit(): The argument #1 is not a number!" The culprit is usually Windows’ OneDrive. Maybe someone can suggest a Print Screen shortcut or you can use a separate program like Lightshot or Snipping tool for cutouts. However sometimes the Lightshot application can’t register the Print Screen key as it’s short key as another program has already registered it. Lightshot is a wonderful little utility that enables easy selective screenshots and quick annotations. # check if the first argument is a number Lightshot failed to register short key on Windows 10. For the left Control key and the Print Screen key that would be ControlL+Print (as an example). Test "$#" -eq 2 || print_error_and_exit 3 "print_error_and_exit(): There have not been passed exactly two arguments!" /lightshotprintscreen -k 'HotKey' -k HotKey: Optional switch requiring one argument, which is the print screen hotkey combination. # check if exactly two arguments have been passed Test "$#" -eq 1 || print_error_and_exit 5 "is_number(): There has not been passed exactly one argument!"
# check if exactly one argument has been passed It might be noteworthy, that I decided to write a script for it now. The reason probably is, that I haven't specified any shell to be run into, and so the following works: sh -c 'xdotool key -window $(xdotool search -limit 1 -all -pid $(pgrep Lightshot) -name Lightshot) "Print"' Desktop version of Lightshot is replacing the standard Windows tool for shooting, and will work with the same hotkey. You can find the latest revision and usage instructions on its GitHub page.