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

Dave Woyciesjes woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net
Thu Jun 21 17:16:42 UTC 2012


On 06/21/2012 01:00 PM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:45:56 -0400
> Dave Woyciesjes<woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net>  wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> 	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?
>>
> Are you sure that it is GNOME that is to blame?  Perhaps it is an Ubuntu
> removal of GNOME functionality.
>
> Cybe R. Wizard
	Good point. I'm not a programmer, nor am I in the Ubuntu devel team, so 
I can't say exactly. Inferred that it seems to be something with the 
Gnome package that Ubuntu provides. one way to prove that is to install 
Gnome fresh from Gnome themselves, I guess.
	Sound liek an interesting challenge. I just may have to try it....

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