Change gnome-screenshot auto-save-directory in Ubuntu Gnome 14.04

Edit

after reading this article and this question it seems like in Ubuntu-Gnome 14.04 (gnome 3.10) the screenshots with Keyboard shortcuts eg:Print are handle by the shell (gnome-settings-daemon media-keys) saving the files to ~/Pictures and not by the gnome-screenshot application.

I have installed Ubuntu Gnome 14.04 to test it.

1) I set the auto-save-directory to /tmp:

• gsettings set org.gnome.gnome-screenshot auto-save-directory '/tmp'

2) I disable the keyboard shortcut Print and I created a new one to run the gnome-screenshot command with the shortcut Ctrl+Alt+H . Then I pressed the new shortcut and the screenshot appears in the /tmp directory.

So, set the auto-save-directory value works for gnome-screenshot, but to solve this issue you can try to disable the default keyboard shortcuts for Screenshots and create new ones but running the gnome-screenshot command.

gnome-screenshots command examples:

Whole screen: gnome-screenshot
Grab a window: screen gnome-screenshot -w
Grab an area: screen gnome-screenshot -a
Send the grab to the clipboard: gnome-screenshot -c
Interactive: gnome-screenshot -i

You can set the directory with the dconf command.

Command line

In this example I'm going to set my Downloads directory.

dconf write /org/gnome/gnome-screenshot auto-save-directory \'/home/youruser/Downloads\'

Please put the full path to the folder... My case /home/virtual/Downloads

GUI with dconf-editor

Just install dconf-editor:

sudo apt-get install dconf-editor

Open dconf-editor and edit the auto-save-directory field (see screenshot below):

• org > gnome > gnome-screenshot