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    KSnapshot won't open using print screen button

    I can't get KSnapshot to open by pressing PrintScreen. It used to work on 13.04, not sure if I had to change the default then (don't think so) but it's really bugging me.

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    The key is mapped correctly... so why isn't it opening? KSnapshot is installed and works fine if I open it from the Kickoff menu.

    Feathers
    samhobbs.co.uk

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    I tried to reproduce this. My saucy is a VirtualBox guest. When I press the Prt Scr button on my keyboard my host's (precise) Ksnapshot launches. I tried the same in my OpenSuse guest and got the same results. I figured the fact that this might be an issue with my host keyboard interacting with my guest, so I tried to use a virtual keyboard. The virtual keyboard, kvkbd, did not have a Prt Scr button, so I installed Onboard onscreen keyboard which had a full keyboard layout. I'd rather use kvkbd, but I couldn't figure out how to get the full keyboard layout with the print key. Using Onboard I pressed the print key and Ksnapshot opened.

    I'm not sure if this is a valid test, so I did some googling and found a recent bug report.
    PrtScrn button does not produce screenshot in kubuntu saucy

    I checked my settings in my host vs guest and they are correct.
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      #3
      Thanks for spending so much time looking into that for me!

      That bug report is exactly the same behaviour I'm seeing - I changed the shortcut key to pause and KSnapshot opens fine now!

      That'll do it for now, I wasn't using the pause key for anything before.

      Weird!
      samhobbs.co.uk

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