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

[Dave Woyciesjes]

On 06/21/2012 03:58 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 06/21/2012 09:45 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
>> On 06/21/2012 09:36 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
>>> On 06/21/2012 08:13 AM, Alexander Skwar (ML) wrote:
> ...
>>>> $ 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?
>>
>
> I loaded up dconf and notice that in the 'last save directory' the
> format is 'file:///home/<username>/<directory>. So I change to that
> format (this is GNOME Shell/Classic) in the org.gnome.gnome-screenshot
> auto-save-directory key, and it now saves to my prefered directory. So
> not using dconf, but using the cli, the command is:
>
> $ gsettings set org.gnome.gnome-screenshot auto-save-directory
> file:///home/<user>/<directory>

	Yeah, that's what I'm going to do for the meantime.

> Now on to figuring out how to get it to run gnome-screenshot -i
> (interactive) with GNOME Classic...
	If/when you get an answer, let me know. I'll help test it too.


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