Screenshot key

Patryk Zawadzki patrys at pld-linux.org
Mon Aug 2 08:59:58 PDT 2010


On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Lasse Kärkkäinen <ljkarkk2 at cc.hut.fi> wrote:
> Games normally use either F11 or F12 but since F11 is the full screen toggle
> in many application programs (and less often also in games), it would seem
> that F12 is better. The PrintScreen key cannot be used precisely because
> desktop environments often reserve it for their own screenshot applications.

F11 and F12 are often hard to reach (2- or 3-key-combo) or totally
nonexistent on small factor devices like netbooks.

-- 
Patryk Zawadzki


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