keyboard shortcut for open image from clipboard
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Liv R May 1, 2024 at 12:23 AM
I’d like that too, please!
Was looking for that like crazy and wanted to “automatize all that mouse clicks”… until ChatGPT from Copilot brought me here, to the “alternative” solution offered by Robin. Where I’ve had to install the “unstable” version to use that shortcut “hack”. It worked! thank you! But I hope to see that in the stable version. Thank you again!

Eddie K. April 1, 2023 at 3:55 PM
Nice feature, when will this be in the stable release?
Robin Krom March 19, 2021 at 10:33 AM(edited)
I’ve added the first step for making this possible to our unstable builds with 1.3.57 and later. See here: https://github.com/greenshot/greenshot/releases
You will need to go into the greenshot.ini to activate it, here are some details on the best way to do this:
Stop Greenshot, editing the greenshot.ini while it’s running is not advicable.
Find the greenshot.ini, as mentioned here: https://getgreenshot.org/faq/where-does-greenshot-store-its-configuration-settings/
(I actually noticed I should update the description to use %APPDATA%\Greenshot)Open it in an editor
Look for the [Core] section
Look for the
ClipboardHotkey=
or add this, and copy your desired hotkey combination here. You can find examples in the other hotkey values. I myself moved the IEHotkey value to there, if you do so, make sure the other hotkey value is set to “None” to make things less complicated.Store
Start Greenshot
Now if you have a bitmap on the clipboard, and press the newly defined hotkey, it should open the clipboard contents into the editor. Also in the Greenshot context menu, the hotkey should be mentioned.
Robin Krom March 17, 2021 at 3:53 PM
Just some background on why this was not added yet, the requestor says “This should really be an easy fix.. to add a keyboard short cut for this”. Maybe it sounds simple for users, and from a technical perspective it might be true, but what actually needs to be done:
Implement the logic
Think about the error case, what does the user expect where there is no image / nothing on the clipboard or we cannot read it.
Find real-estate in the UI to add the hotkey editor. I looked at it, and I might be able to squeeze it in.
We need to contact all the translators to translate the text, this is VERY time consuming while we still didn’t define a clean process for this.
Other things to consider, is that just implementing this feature might cause subsequent questions like “but I just want to open it directly in the editor” and others “I want the clipboard content to directly go to destination x,y,z”.
I’ll check if I can add this, opening it in the editor where there is a way to export it to additional destinations. But I’m afraid that translations in the UI are needed, which is a process which we currently prefer to prevent. Optionally I might add it anyway, but not visible from the UI and spend a QA entry on configuring more things like this. I will keep you informed.

Tyson Scheidecker March 16, 2021 at 11:06 PM
I would also love this feature. I frequently switch between just needing to screenshot a region and screenshot a region + edit and the dynamic menu is too much of a pain to select an option every single time. A hotkey would solve this.
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As i already have image copied to clipboard from other sources (Ctrl + C, Windows Snip It, etc.).. I want to open the image in Greenshot for annotations.
I can't easily do this using just keyboard alone.. it will be nice if I can open the image in clipboard by just pressing a keyboard shortcut (e.g. Ctrl + 1) etc.
Currently, i have to find the greenshot icon.. and left click.. and choose open image from clipboard.
This should really be an easy fix.. to add a keyboard short cut for this.