Alternate Hot Key Screen Capture needed for windows

[kmeekva]

Feature Description

Windows ships with snip and sketch bound to the PrtScr key.

Flameshot is programmed to bind to that key to launch graphical screen capture interface.

But this hotkey will not work if windows is already using it.

Therefore the only way for me to take a screen shot is to click the icon in the windows tray to activate a screen grab.

While best solution would be to allow the user to 'customize' the hot key. I'd propose just binding both PrtScr and Alt-PrtScr -- as the Alt-PrtScr does not conflict with any default windows keybindings.

I will create a pull request to add this simple alternative which will make flameshot imensely easier to use for windows users.

[davehouser1]

I agree with this request that Flameshot should not be locked down to Print Screen, however the hot key combination should be configurable for whatever the user desires. Currently, I use AutoHotKey to allow me to bind key combinations to perform tasks in Windows. I personally want to replace the key combination I use for "Snipping Tool" (The older snip tool) with Flameshot. However I am forced to use "Print Screen". I don't want to use Print Screen, it disrupts the way I have been doing things. Please make the shortcuts configuration tab "Capture Screen" setting configurable to any key combination the user decides. Or make the actual action of perform a screen shot its own .exe, so I can use AutoHotKey to execute that .exe separately.

[umernalla]

+1 to this request.
I really would prefer to be able to choose which key I use to capture the screen - similar to GreenShot.
I actually prefer the interface of FlameShot - i.e. in situ editing - which is so much better than having to use a separate editor.
Thanks.

[mmahmoudian]

I believe this is duplicate of #1341, so I close this in favor of that. If you believe these two are different, please let me know and we will discuss