12.04 [Print Screen] key not prompting for file location anymore

Dave Woyciesjes woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net
Tue Jun 19 15:46:23 UTC 2012


On 06/19/2012 10:27 AM, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:17:23AM -0400, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
>> 	Upgraded to 12.04 the other day. Now when I hit the [Print Screen]
>> key, it takes the screenshot; but instead of prompting for where to
>> put the picture, it just defaults to the Pictures folder.
>> 	Searching around the interweb turns up nothing. Any pointers?
>
> Seems to be a new GNOME 3.4 feature.  I've found the gsettings key to change
> the location, but I haven't found a way to have it pop up a save as
> dialog.
>
> (The key is org.gnome.gnome-screenshot.auto-save-directory BTW.)
>
> Marius Gedminas
>

Hmmm, mine seems to be already empty:

~$ sudo gsettings get org.gnome.gnome-screenshot auto-save-directory
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