A confirmation dialog for URxvt’s Print Screen key

Posted on 2014-11-01 by Stephan Sokolow

I use urxvt’s kuake plugin as a lighter replacement for Yakuake and, as a result, I’m using it with F12 as my “toggle terminal” keybind.

…unfortunately, that means that, every time my finger slips, I hit Print Screen.

As such, I wrote this little script you can use to Print Screen to file, with a confirmation dialog to avoid the need to keep deleting unwanted printouts.

confirm_print.sh (fixed commit ID)

To use it:

  1. Copy it to somewhere like ~/bin/confirm_print.sh
  2. Make sure zenity is installed
  3. Add these lines to your ~/.Xresources 
    Rxvt.print-pipe: ~/bin/confirm_print.sh
URxvt.print-pipe: ~/bin/confirm_print.sh
  4. Run xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
  5. Restart any terminals you may have. (You are using screen or tmux, right?)

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