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

[Dave Woyciesjes]

On 06/21/2012 09:36 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> 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...
>
	So, just did a fresh install of 12.04x64 on a spare Latitude D620...
	Now it's getting interesting. After the install, the [Print Screen] key 
pops up the location box like I want.
	Via Synaptic, I install Gnome and remove Unity. Now the prompt doesn't 
occur. Via Synaptic, add Unity (yuck) & Ubuntu-Desktop back in. Still no 
prompt when using Gnome Shell, but when I login to Unity, it does prompt.
	So, what the fuck is Gnome doing?

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