How to change the folder where screenshots are saved?

[Yannbane]

I'm running Mint 14 w/ Cinnamon, and I have deleted the Pictures folder, and replaced it with a symbolic link named Pictures too, on my other partition.

However, screenshots now save to my home folder. How can I change this?

[kyphi]

After taking a screenshot, there is provision on the popup screen called "Save Screenshot" for you to specify a destination in "Save in folder". Click on the down arrow and change the desired destination - then click on "Save".

[Yannbane]

Actually, there is no choice available. The screen only flashes bright white (which is a bit annoying), and the screenshot is automatically created.

[elwc]

Yeah, I am also looking for a solution here.

[Yannbane]

Anyone?

[dantropolis]

Try Ksnapshot from the software center.
It has some features the default program does not as well as the option to save where you like.
As I remember, the default program had that too at leat until Mint 13.

I'm using Ksnapshot on Mint 13 MATE 64.

Enjoy!
Dan

[spectralcat]

You have to change Gnome screenshot's auto-save-directory with dconf-editor. First install dconf-editor by doing: sudo apt-get install dconf-tools
Then in a terminal type:
dconf-editor
Then go to:
org
gnome
gnome-screenshot
Then fill in the entry for auto-save-directory with:
file:///home/user/Desktop/
Replace "user" with your username and "Desktop" with the save location you want.

[dpat]

I also ran into this problem. Under LMDE 201403 UP8 I solved it with:

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gsettings set org.gnome.gnome-screenshot auto-save-directory 'file:///home/user/screenshots'

(no need to install dconf-tools).

To view all options run:

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% gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.gnome-screenshot

org.gnome.gnome-screenshot auto-save-directory 'file:///home/jkirk/Pictures/screenshots'
org.gnome.gnome-screenshot border-effect 'none'
org.gnome.gnome-screenshot default-file-type 'png'
org.gnome.gnome-screenshot delay 3
org.gnome.gnome-screenshot include-border false
org.gnome.gnome-screenshot include-icc-profile true
org.gnome.gnome-screenshot include-pointer false
org.gnome.gnome-screenshot last-save-directory 'file:///home/jkirk/Pictures/screenshots'
org.gnome.gnome-screenshot take-window-shot false

[Habitual]

I mapped a command

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scrot -q 50 /home/jj/Pictures/screenshots/PrintScreen_%m %d %T.png

to Print key.