Add dedicated keyboard shortcut to copy screenshot to clipboard |
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Issue description
Chrome Version : 55.0.2883.29
OS Version: 8872.27.0
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(Background Context - my role involves lots of copying/pasting screenshots from various sites/apps. So screenshots are something I use many times a day.)
ChromeOS has two screenshot shortcuts - one to screenshot the entire screen, and another to allow you to draw a region.
However, both by default will simply save the screenshot to Downloads.
In order to copy the screenshot to the clipboard, you need to wait for the screenshot notification, then click the Copy to Clipboard button there. Then delete the original file from Downloads.
In contrast, OSX has dedicated screenshots to both save screenshots, or copy directly to the clipboard
https://support.apple.com/en-ie/HT201361
You can use Command+Shift+4 to bring up crosshairs, and it will automatically dump a screenshot of the selected region to the Desktop as PNG. I can then attach this image file to an email, for example.
You can also use Command+Shift+Ctrl+4 to bring up crosshairs, and it will copy the selection to the clipboard, which I could paste directly into an email, or into Google Docs.
ChromeOS just has the single shortcut to take the entire screen, and dump it to Downloads.
In particular, if you have just used the mouse to draw a crosshairs to screenshot a region, you now need to move your mouse to the bottom right to hit a small click-target, to copy this to the clipboard (and of course, the button isn't at the bottom of the screen, but rather is slightly off - so you can't just fling your mouse to the bottom and click, you need to aim precisely).
It would be awesome if ChromeOS provided an alternate shortcut to screenshot directly to clipboard.
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Feb 7 2017
That would be cool. tbuckley@ could you have a look?
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Feb 8 2017
Yes that would be great. Chrome OS had this nice feature called the Downloads bar. Since the downloads bar was taken away, copying a screenshot or any download without it going straight to the Downloads folder, has been a nuisance. #CBC-RS/TC-watchlist
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Feb 9 2017
ChromeOS has a third option to capture a 'window' using 'ctrl + 'alt' + 'screenshot' which brings up a crosshair to select the window. Maybe one or more of these options could include the 'search' key to save it directly to Downloads.
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Feb 10 2017
Oops, concerning #c4, I meant save to clipboard instead of Downloads.
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Feb 15 2017
@mcirimele since you were looking at screenshots what do you think of a shortcut like this?
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Feb 15 2017
Yes, I think it would be fine to add a modifier to the shortcuts for power users. The 'shift' key could be another good candidate to add to it. We'll want to show different things in the notification, like "copied to clipboard" and not have the shortcut to "copy to clipboard". @sgabriel what do you think about this? Any opinions on what the shortcut should be?
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Feb 16 2017
Shift could be tricky since it's already used in one of the screenshot shortcuts (ctrl+shift+overview). We have: Ctrl+Overview -- capture screen Ctrl+Shift+Overview -- capture region Ctrl+Alt+Overview -- capture window Adding Search to each is pretty straightforward but makes them pretty long (Ctrl+Alt+Search+Overview is uncomfortable). An alternative would be to come up with a Search-based variant for each, eg: Search+Ctrl+Overview -- capture screen to clipboard Search+Shift+Overview -- capture region to clipboard Search+Alt+Overview -- capture window to clipboard What do you think?
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Feb 16 2017
That proposal sounds good to me.
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Feb 16 2017
Would not 'Search+Ctrl+Overview -- capture screen to clipboard' be a conflict with the existing combo 'Ctrl+Shift+Overview -- capture region' ???
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Feb 16 2017
I don't believe so -- one is using the Search key, the other is using Shift.
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Feb 16 2017
My bad, I read it all wrong sorry.
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Feb 23 2017
Oh so sorry, apparently I'm not familiar with all of our shortcuts yet... Creating 3 new shortcuts with "search" instead of "ctrl" makes sense to me. Thanks Tom!
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Jun 4 2018
(Bulk Edit) Adding the new conops Chrome OS hotlist to all open issues with the "#CBC-RS/TC-watchlist" tag, our former tracking tag.
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Nov 30
Hi, came across this FR looking for a way to screenshot directly to clipboard. Given that the last human comment is from Feb 2017, I was wondering if this is still on the road map. I think this could be a big improvement for users who need to take a lot of screenshots. |
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Comment 1 by twreid@chromium.org
, Jan 31 2017Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)