Keeping Spectacle down

[DoYouKubuntu]

Under "General" in configuration, the very top option, is to "autosave in default folder". I checked that and then hit F1, which I had assigned to Spectacle. When I used F1 to snapshot the screen a popup notice appeared in the system tray. It had a configure option on it so I clicked that and disabled the option to display a popup message, or play a sound. I took several pictures using your method. Works great! I'm going to keep it.

There's nothing like that for me. I just closed Spectacle and then took a shot; the only thing that appears in my tray is Spectacle's entry:



Right-clicking on it does not give me a configure option for Spectacle; it brings up a menu for various Task Manager settings. Left-clicking just brings up Spectacle.

I wonder how I can get the configuration options you found.

[claydoh]

$ spectacle --help will reveal the command option(s) to use with your custom keyboard shortcut to do many things.

[GreyGeek]

Under "General" in configuration, the very top option, is to "autosave in default folder". I checked that and then hit F1, which I had assigned to Spectacle. When I used F1 to snapshot the screen a popup notice appeared in the system tray. It had a configure option on it so I clicked that and disabled the option to display a popup message, or play a sound. I took several pictures using your method. Works great! I'm going to keep it.

[DoYouKubuntu]

I didn't know how to word the subject!

A certain project I work on involves taking lots of screenshots. I've configured Spectacle to work *exactly* the way I want, right down to assigning an additional key, [F1], to take screenshots. I have it auto-saving each screenshot in a specific directory; I can take shot after shot and not have to do anything, like name or save each shot. When I'm done, I go to its directory and do whatever I need to do with the screenshots.

The problem? I can't figure out how to keep Spectacle from popping up over the page I've just screenshotted. Let's say I'm on the first page of my project; I take a screenshot and Spectacle appears; I click somewhere to make it go away. I move on to the next page; I take a screenshot--and Spectacle MAY or MAY NOT pop up; it's maybe a 50/50 split. When it doesn't pop up, I can see it flash briefly in my taskbar--this is what I want all the time.

When I was using the System76 loaner, running Pop!_OS, not Kubuntu, its built-in screenshot program (not Spectacle) didn't do this. I could take a succession of shots and it would stay back, until I brought it up myself. I don't recall what it was called, just that it definitely was not Spectacle.

I've searched Spectacle's settings and tools but came up empty. I know there are many system settings, like when right-clicking on a title bar, under "More Actions," there's "Configure Special Application Settings..." Is there a setting somewhere, anywhere, that would keep Spectacle hidden except for the first use? I hope this makes sense.