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By pressing "Print" a screenshot of the whole desktop gets taken. But I would 
prefer if I could always choose the area of the screenshot by hand. By calling  
"gnome-screenshot --area" from commandline you can select the area.
 
So I went into System -> Shortcuts (? have a German layout)  and deactivated 
the shortcut "print" for taking a screenshot.
Now I added a new shortcut with the command: "gnome-screenshot --area" and 
assigned the "print" key to it. (Theoretically I am done at this point) 

 But if I press the print key a screenshot of the whole screen gets
taken. And there was NO area selection. If I change the command from "--
area" to "--interactive", then by pressing the "print" key the property
window pops up (if i select there the checkbox area-selection I can
choose the area). Assigning "gnome-screenshot --area"  to a different
key/ or combination of keys has the same result - the area selection
never shows up. (The interactive mode always works)

Do I miss something or did I found a bug? And can anyone tell me if
there is a fix?

As a workaround I tried putting the command into a script and then
calling the script per shortcut with the same result: the area selection
never shows up, (the interactive mode does).

I am using  
Ubuntu 9.10 with  kernel 2.6.31-20-generic (without compiz or any desktop 
effects)

loe

** Affects: gnome-utils (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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gnome-screenshot ignores "--area" if called from shortcut
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/549935
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