Hello! I wanted to make some order in my screenshots, it would be extremely helpful if I could define defaults based on the app that is currently focused when taking the screenshot, if that’s at all possible given Wayland’s restrictions.
Do you know if there’s a way, I haven’t found any setting like that in Spectacle, but maybe there’s some kind of workaround?
Edit: to add to @DmMacniel@feddit.org’s solution, a few tweaks to make it a little easier to handle:
- If you want the actual screenshots to be placed elsewhere, you can create a symbolic link to that path with the name of the directory that is generated when you save the screenshot, e.g. I use it for a game, I tried to save a screenshot of it and it created a directory named “Genshin Impact”, so I replaced that with a symlink to where I want it to be (“Pictures/Games/Genshin Impact/Screenshots”)
- Since the title is only added when you take an “Active Window” screenshot, you can trigger it with
Meta
+Print Screen
and as a bonus the screenshot is automatically saved with this shortcut, without needing to change other settings
afaik you can set a partial path to the filename for a new screenshot in spectacle?
so for your usecase: se the Filename:
/%T/Screenshot_%d.png
Oh I hadn’t noticed that option, thanks! I think it’ll work pretty well, though I will have to stay within a top level Screenshots directory, it’s already a big improvement