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

[Marius Gedminas]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 02:13:28PM +0200, 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?

  $ gsettings set org.gnome.gnome-screenshot auto-save-directory $HOME/img/shots

  $ gsettings get org.gnome.gnome-screenshot auto-save-directory
  'file:///home/mg/img/shots'

> 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.

Try an explicit file:/// URL.  It works for me.

> Ubuntu 12.04 Gnome Shell (not Unity)

Same here.

Marius Gedminas
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