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> Taking a screenshot. Opening the right file Former is PrtScn key on my keyboard. Microsoft ships Snipping Tools and lately Snip n Sketch for screenshots - ne

> Taking a screenshot. Opening the right file Former is PrtScn key on my keyboard. Microsoft ships Snipping Tools and lately Snip n Sketch for screenshots - never had any issues with either. Latter - not sure what you mean - opening the right file as in setting default program to open a file? That's easy enough and it's the best experience on Windows.

anaisbetts 7y ago
This is the Windows 7-era way to do this. Hit WindowsKey-Shift-S instead.
dsego 7y ago
PrtScn only if you want to paste it into an image editing program. If you want to save it as file (which is what most people do) than it's some combo. I still remember how it was common for people to send me word files with screenshots pasted, they didn't know better.
madeofpalk 7y ago
Press print screen and it does... I'm not sure what? I /remembered "Snipping Tool", so I searched for "Snip" and launched that, and it shows a menu that says like "Snipping Tool is deprecated, use Snip n Sketch" so you click that and a new app opens (but old one stays open as well) and you take your screenshot and then its open in a window that you have to go and save. I know I'm biased because its what I'm used to for 10 years, but on Mac I just have the (insane) cmd + shift + 4 shortcut engrained that'll snip a part of my screen and save to my Desktop. It's just so much quicker than Windows. re opening file: I miss Quicklook to make sure I have the right file selected. Also miss being able to drag a file into an open dialogue box to select it to open.
- dsego 7y ago
  > Press print screen and it does... I'm not sure what? Copies it into the buffer, silently. No notification, nothing. Great UX. In Ubuntu it's even better, it actually saves it as an image file (and does the annoying shutter effect). But the repeat key is not turned off... so if by any chance you hold it down by mistake, thinking it was the right ctrl, oh boy, you get a shitstorm of shutter effects and dozens of screenshots in the pictures folder. Very annoying. I don't know which I hate more, Ubuntu or Windows.
  - ben-schaaf 7y ago
    Out of interest, what keyboard has a Print-Screen key next to ctrl?
    - dsego 7y ago
      Thinkpad T480s, goes space, alt, prtsc, ctrl.
  - userbinator 7y ago
    Copies it into the buffer, silently. No notification, nothing. Do you expect Ctrl+C to not be silent either? Because that's what PrintScreen and all the other clipboard operations were designed as.
- PixyMisa 7y ago
  Window-Shift-S then click and drag. Unfortunately it's one of those things that is incredibly useful but isn't mentioned anywhere.
asdff 7y ago
Snipping tool looks like something cobbled together for a capstone project compared to macos shift cmd 4 which doesn't get in your way at all.
- banachtarski 7y ago
  It's been largely updated from several weeks (months?) ago (windows shift S now replaces the old snipping tool).
crummy 7y ago
This is actually the one use case where I'm happiest with the Mac + touchbar. OSX lets you screenshot a portion of the screen, a particular window, or the entire screen, and save it to clipboard or desktop, and the keyboard combinations to choose between these are pretty hard to remember. But the touchbar lets you touch a single button, off-screen, and then clearly choose between these options: https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201361 https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201361

anaisbetts 7y ago

This is the Windows 7-era way to do this. Hit WindowsKey-Shift-S instead.

dsego 7y ago

PrtScn only if you want to paste it into an image editing program. If you want to save it as file (which is what most people do) than it's some combo. I still remember how it was common for people to send me word files with screenshots pasted, they didn't know better.

madeofpalk 7y ago

Press print screen and it does... I'm not sure what? I /remembered "Snipping Tool", so I searched for "Snip" and launched that, and it shows a menu that says like "Snipping Tool is deprecated, use Snip n Sketch" so you click that and a new app opens (but old one stays open as well) and you take your screenshot and then its open in a window that you have to go and save. I know I'm biased because its what I'm used to for 10 years, but on Mac I just have the (insane) cmd + shift + 4 shortcut engrained that'll snip a part of my screen and save to my Desktop. It's just so much quicker than Windows. re opening file: I miss Quicklook to make sure I have the right file selected. Also miss being able to drag a file into an open dialogue box to select it to open.

dsego 7y ago
> Press print screen and it does... I'm not sure what? Copies it into the buffer, silently. No notification, nothing. Great UX. In Ubuntu it's even better, it actually saves it as an image file (and does the annoying shutter effect). But the repeat key is not turned off... so if by any chance you hold it down by mistake, thinking it was the right ctrl, oh boy, you get a shitstorm of shutter effects and dozens of screenshots in the pictures folder. Very annoying. I don't know which I hate more, Ubuntu or Windows.
- ben-schaaf 7y ago
  Out of interest, what keyboard has a Print-Screen key next to ctrl?
  - dsego 7y ago
    Thinkpad T480s, goes space, alt, prtsc, ctrl.
- userbinator 7y ago
  Copies it into the buffer, silently. No notification, nothing. Do you expect Ctrl+C to not be silent either? Because that's what PrintScreen and all the other clipboard operations were designed as.
PixyMisa 7y ago
Window-Shift-S then click and drag. Unfortunately it's one of those things that is incredibly useful but isn't mentioned anywhere.

asdff 7y ago

Snipping tool looks like something cobbled together for a capstone project compared to macos shift cmd 4 which doesn't get in your way at all.

banachtarski 7y ago
It's been largely updated from several weeks (months?) ago (windows shift S now replaces the old snipping tool).

crummy 7y ago

This is actually the one use case where I'm happiest with the Mac + touchbar. OSX lets you screenshot a portion of the screen, a particular window, or the entire screen, and save it to clipboard or desktop, and the keyboard combinations to choose between these are pretty hard to remember. But the touchbar lets you touch a single button, off-screen, and then clearly choose between these options: https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201361 https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201361