I went back and reread that entire thread once again, and I repeat, the DEFAULT save-to directory for the keyboard activated PrintScreen is ALWAYS ~/Pictures/
even after saving a previous snapshot to /Desktop/
it defaults back to Pictures every single time....
in the 1st thread I initiated on this, we did NOT make the PrtScrn button default to Desktop.
I want the Default to always go to Desktop, no where else, and /Pictures is not acceptable because there are too many Date/Time/Stamped names in there already....
and, as I said, that requires that I activate NEMO to find the Pictures folder, and then sort it by Modified time, so that the most recent screenshot goes to the top.
Okay, I looked at
https://github.com/rjanja/desktop-capture but that is just another utility that gets in the way of selecting a screenshot.....
What everyone is overlooking is that I am trying to capture a screenshot of a Menu.... and once a Menu is up, if you touch any key, or click the mouse anywhere, besides touching the PrtScreen kybd button, that Menu will disappear.....
I don't need to upload directly to Imgur, as that would include stuff that I don't want, I want the default PrtScreen to go to Desktop, no where else. that way I can see it immediately and open it with GIMP to select out just a portion of the total screen to capture a Menu..... The Cinnamon ScreenShot I already have tied to the Panel, so it is easy to click that and capture just a portion of a static screen, but if a Menu is UP, the menu disappears when activating ScreenShot.
So, to reiterate, I want the PrtScreen button snapshot to default to Desktop, and my earlier thread which was referenced never did get that done.
With the current Kernel 4.15.0-24 PrtScrn always defaults to ~/Pictures in-spite of me always selecting Desktop. And every prior Kernel has also:
I never, ever, select any "save to" folder other than Desktop.
And
Your gsettings command should have already done it. only effects the Menu activated Screenshot utility, it does NOT change the default for
PrtScreen
I recognize that a lot of people use the desktop as a Menu to go to places they use a lot, but I keep that stuff on the Panel. I keep the Desktop totally clear and I use it as a repository for Snapshots.....
The instant that a snapshot is renamed, and edited to contain on the portion of the picture that I want, it is removed from the Desktop... usually to the trash as I upload most of them to Imgur after editing.
a final image to prove my point. This image was captured with a Camera to show that the
Keyboard activated screen snapshot utility always defaults to ~/Pictures/
