Screenshot hotkeys with scrot in openbox

README.md

This allows you to use the "print screen" key to take screenshots with scrot. The snippet above is to be placed in your openbox configuration file, inside the openbox_config and keyboard tags (with the rest of the keybinds). Since I use lxde, my openbox config file is in ~/.config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml.

You can use shift to copy your screenshots to your clipboard (requires xclip).

You can use ctrl to be able to select a rectangle or a window for the screenshot.

Scrot beeps when taking a screenshot. You can prevent this by adding -z in the scrot commands.

lxde-rc_SNIPPET.xml

<keybind key='Print'>
    <action name='Execute'>
        <command>scrot -e &apos;mv $f ~/Screenshots/&apos;</command>
    </action>
</keybind>
<keybind key='S-Print'>
    <action name='Execute'>
        <command>scrot -e &apos;xclip  -selection clipboard -t $(file -b --mime-type $f) -i $f; mv $f /dev/null &apos;</command>
    </action>
</keybind>
<keybind key='C-Print'>
    <action name='Execute'>
        <command>scrot -s -e &apos;mv $f ~/Screenshots/&apos;</command>
    </action>
</keybind>
<keybind key='C-S-Print'>
    <action name='Execute'>
        <command>scrot -s -e &apos;xclip  -selection clipboard -t $(file -b --mime-type $f) -i $f; mv $f /dev/null &apos;</command>
    </action>
</keybind>