[SOLVED] Can't use scrot with a shortcut in Xfce

Question

I don't need to be bothered by a dialog and browsing to my screenshots directory every time I want to take a screenshot, so I've tried to set a keyboard shortcut in Xfce that lets me simply put a screenshot in the directory for me.  However, nothing seems to be happening.
I've set the command to be just plain old 'scrot' (and '/usr/bin/scrot' just to be sure) as suggested on the Arch Wiki and have tried the format suggested in the scrot man page.  Neither works, and I can't figure out why.  As a point of information, the
scrot '%Y-%m-%d.png' -e 'mv $f ~/shots/'
suggested by the man page doesn't work because it says that --.png is not a valid option.  So it would seem that the calls to strftime are being interpreted wrongly or at the wrong time?
Thanks for any help.
Last edited by JeSuisNerd (2012-03-31 23:55:38)

Answer 1

What if you create a script like this:
#!/bin/bash
scrot '%Y-%m-%d.png' -e 'mv $f ~/shots/'
Make it executable:
chmod +x the_script
Then try it in the terminal and see if you get a screenshot, if you do, then modify the key bind in xfce to run:
/home/username/the_script
And see if it works that way. It's not really a solution if it works, because you need the script.