Unix & Linux Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for users of Linux, FreeBSD and other Un*x-like operating systems. It only takes a minute to sign up.
Sign up to join this community
I'm trying to add a keyboard shortcut to be able to automatically screenshot an active window to the clipboard I'm trying this line of code right now gnome-screenshot -w | xclip -selection clipboard but it doesn't work
ps: yes I am writing this line in the shortcut section of gnome
The gnome-screenshot -w command doesn't write anything to standard output, so you can't pipe it to another program. In any case, you don't need to, see man gnome-screenshot:
-c, --clipboard
Send the grab directly to the clipboard.
So all you need is gnome-screenshot -cw.
