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Bug 691710 - Save screenshots in Pictures/Screenshots?
Save screenshots in Pictures/Screenshots?
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-screenshot
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-screenshot-maint
gnome-screenshot-maint
: 788319 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-01-14 12:06 UTC by Andreas Nilsson
Modified: 2021-05-25 12:37 UTC
See Also:
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Description Andreas Nilsson 2013-01-14 12:06:55 UTC
My Pictures folder tends to clog up due to all the screenshots. :)
Comment 1 Christian Gonzalez 2013-11-22 20:30:55 UTC
Could you explain a bit more exactly what you mean?
Do you mean that: Bug 715038?
Comment 2 Andreas Nilsson 2013-11-24 13:54:07 UTC
No, that would be another bug. This bug was about a suggestion to try and put the screenshots in ~/Pictures/screenshots rather than directly in ~/Pictures
Comment 3 Quel Qun 2014-02-13 20:29:26 UTC
Or even better, have the destination directory configurable. An 'auto-save-directory' dconf key like gnome-screenshot would be a good start I suppose.
Comment 4 Hashem Nasarat 2014-05-05 23:40:02 UTC
To be clear, Andreas, this bug report is about changing the default file location, right? This ticket is a good place to track this bug when taking screenshots with gnome-screenshot, but for screenshots taken with the PrintSc key, https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729610 must be fixed first.
Comment 5 André Klapper 2017-09-29 18:50:03 UTC
*** Bug 788319 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 André Klapper 2017-09-29 18:51:19 UTC
Duplicate of bug 699642?
Comment 7 Debarshi Ray 2017-10-02 11:48:32 UTC
(In reply to Quel Qun from comment #3)
> Or even better, have the destination directory configurable. An
> 'auto-save-directory' dconf key like gnome-screenshot would be a good start
> I suppose.

Or by introducing a XDG_SCREENSHOTS_DIR?
Comment 8 Loren Dias 2018-04-13 16:52:00 UTC
I agree, I have tens and hundreds of screenshot at a time and having them in the root Pictures directory adds a few extra steps for me as I have to manually clean it periodically to seperate out my Images in ~/Pictures.

I too suggest that it go into ~/Pictures/Screenshots
Comment 9 Emmanuele Bassi (:ebassi) 2020-11-26 16:36:00 UTC
The discussion on xdg-list to add a new user directory, or add sub-locations to existing directories, never went anywhere:

 1. https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2014-January/013149.html
 2. https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2015-January/013433.html
Comment 10 André Klapper 2021-05-25 12:37:36 UTC
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org.
As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org
which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately
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If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent
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