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by e-master 1161 days ago
FWIW, I’m already used to Win+Shift+S by now which I assume does the same thing?
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What annoys me to no end is that it only saves to clipboard. There's no easy way to have it as an image.

The many settings and workarounds described around internet don't exist/don't work on Home edition.

They do save to a folder for a while:

"%LocalAppData%\Packages\MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy\TempState\ScreenClip"

I have a WSL2 cronjob that does an rsync to the Pictures folder, but its ridiculous how dogshit it is, not only obvious missing functionality but how it takes multiple seconds to do a capture.

> They do save to a folder for a while:

For some reason it in't saving on my machine, but I should check it again

> but its ridiculous how dogshit it is, not only obvious missing functionality but how it takes multiple seconds to do a capture.

So much this.

What's even more mind-boggling is that they've had this behaviour for almost three decades now. And they are clearly adding functionality to it, so it's not like it's a neglected feature. And still, they can't figure out the simple idea of saving the screenshot.

You can easily save to a file. A notification pops up after you take the screenshot, click on it then click the save icon.
Hm... I never see the notification. Could be I've developed a notification blindness or that I turned all notifications off.

Thanks, I'll check it out

It does.
It should