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Are there any sort of configuration options for specifying the default save location for gnome-screenshot, or is this hard-coded into the source code?


It used to be ~/Desktop, which seems to have changed to ~/Pictures (in 12.04).


The only possible solution I've seen is about Setting the default name (as it includes time stamp information now instead of simply 'Screenshot#'), but that solution doesn't really seem ideal to me.


Also, this post suggested that the last save location is remembered the next time you take a screenshot, but in my experience, this doesn't seem to be the case. And in any case, following on from that, that entry in gconf-editor doesn't even seem to accurately reflect the last location, so more than likely an entry related to an older version of gnome-screenshot.


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For 12.04


Via GUI



  1. Install dconf-editor



  • From the command line, run the command sudo apt-get install dconf-editor



  • Or click here to install from the Ubuntu Software Center:


    Install via the software center





  1. Press Alt + F2 and type dconf-editor



  2. Go to org -> gnome -> gnome-screenshot



  3. At "auto-save-directory" type the desired directory in the following format: file:///home/user/Desktop/


    name: auto-save-directory, value: file:///full/path/




A tip for anyone who is using the configuration editor in unity: click on the arrow to the left the org text to expand it.


Via Terminal


Simply run this command, replacing the path with your preferred directory.


gsettings set org.gnome.gnome-screenshot auto-save-directory "file:///home/$USER/Downloads/"

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