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

[Dave Woyciesjes]

On 06/20/2012 01:05 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> On 06/19/2012 03:31 PM, Marius Gedminas wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:46:23AM -0400, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
>>> On 06/19/2012 10:27 AM, Marius Gedminas wrote:
>>>> 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.)
>>>>
>>>> Marius Gedminas
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hmmm, mine seems to be already empty:
>>>
>>> ~$ sudo gsettings get org.gnome.gnome-screenshot auto-save-directory
>>> ''
>>
>> AFAIU blank means 'use the Pictures folder' (which can be translated
>> into your native language etc.).
>>
>> Marius Gedminas
>>
>
> Well, I found dconf-editor, which is a GUI for gsettings; and I tried to
> set the auto-save directory to something else. But it still saves in the
> Pictures folders.
> One bit online, from someone else workign with somethign like this,
> asked about what ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs has set for XDG_PICTURES_DIR.
> On mine, it's my Pictures folder where the screenshots are saved.
> All of the bits I'm finding about gnome-screenshot says it's supposed to
> ask for a location, but it just ain't happening. The sam eoccurs on my
> other 12.04 machine as well...
> Anyone?
>

	Further testing reveals that by invoking the gnome-screenshot GUI; and 
clicking Take Screenshot there, I do get prompted where to save.
	So I looked around for the keybindings and whatnot that specify what to 
do with the Print Screen key, and I have not foudn out how to get that 
to open the interactive window for gnome-screenshot....

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