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

[Dave Woyciesjes]

On 06/21/2012 08:13 AM, Alexander Skwar (ML) wrote:
> Am 06/19/12 16:27, schrieb Marius Gedminas:
>> 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.)
>
>
> Hm…
>
> How do you change this?
>
> I used to have this:
>
> $ gsettings get org.gnome.gnome-screenshot auto-save-directory
> ''
>
> When I pressed <Print Screen>, a screenshot was saved in my
> ~/Bilder directory.
>
> Now I to change the setting:
>
> $ gsettings set org.gnome.gnome-screenshot auto-save-directory
> ~/Dropbox/Photos/Screenshots/
> $ gsettings get org.gnome.gnome-screenshot auto-save-directory
> '/home/a.sk/Dropbox/Photos/Screenshots/'
>
> However, when I now press <Print Screen>, the file still gets
> created in ~/Bilder and not in /home/a.sk/Dropbox/Photos/Screenshots/
> as I would've expected.
>
> Ubuntu 12.04 Gnome Shell (not Unity)
>
> Alexander

	That's what I'm seeing. I found that if you look in 
~/.config/user-dirs.dirs, and comment out the XDG_PICTURES_DIR line:

XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"

...it saves the pics in your home folder. But that seems to remove all 
refences in the system to any default Pictures folder.

	I would like to restore the function where it prompts for a location 
when you hit the [Print Screen] key.
	Like mentioend before, if you use the gnome-screenshot gui, it does ask...

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