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Michael Durrant
Asked: 2013-02-14 13:14:59 +0800 CST

Where are (partial) screenshot stored or how to specifiy location?

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When I use the print screen key - PrtSc - I get the option of where to save. That works fine.

However when I shift-ctrl-PrtSc I hear the picture being 'taken' but I don't get a chance to specify the location.

I have checked the following locations and they do NOT have the screenshot:

My Desktop
My Documents
My home directory
print-screen

5 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    As I know holding Ctrl copies the screenshot to the clipboard and you need to paste it in an application to save it.

    You can check the shortcut keys in Keyboard Settings.

    Screenshot shortcuts

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  2. I played around some more and found that using Alt-Fn-PrtScn will copy the window only and then give me the option of where to save.

    2014 - Update

    PrtScn - Capture the entire screen (all windows) and ask where to save
    Alt PrtScn - Capture the currently focused window and ask where to save
    Shift PrtScn - Select specific area for capture and ask where to save

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  3. Shift+PrtScn is a better way, as you will be prompted for where to save the screenshot (and by what filename).

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  4. Very simple answer to your direct question(s):

    Ctrl-PrtSc will copy the whole screen to the clipboard. It is not saved on disk.

    To get a partial, you add Shift, whether you use Ctrl (clipboard) or not (save and/or clipboard).

    Of course, you probably know that just pressing PrtSc will capture the whole screen and give you the options to save to clipboard and/or save it to disk, with a default directory of ~/Pictures

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  5. try using Shutter instead, It's awesome:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shutter/ppa    
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install shutter

    However I think you can also try this not sure if it will fix that exactly:

    gsettings set org.gnome.gnome-screenshot auto-save-directory to 
file:///home/yourusername/wherever/you/want

    you can also use get to see where it is suppose to be saving them:

    gsettings get org.gnome.gnome-screenshot

    Source: Why doesn't the PrintScreen dialog show up in Gnome?

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