According to this, pressing the screenshot hotkey will do either of 2 things:
- For Unity users, it'll open the dialog box where you can set the picture's name, location and whether or not it'll be copied to clipboard instead.
- For Gnome users, it'll automatically save the picture with a name that shows time and date taken to the set autosave folder (
~/Pictures
by default).
I've been using gnome-flashback (formerly known as Gnome Classic (No Effects) or Gnome Fallback) for a long time and have had the second outcome happen every time. For some reason, though, after upgrading to 14.04 and switching Unity to gnome-flashback, it started doing the first one instead.
Following this to make custom keyboard shortcuts doesn't work because gnome-screenshot still uses the dialog box by default.
I've already set the autosave location and the screen flash + shutter sound is enough of an indication that a shot's been taken so no need to argue pros and cons like all the bug reports that do.
Is there a setting or some way to disable the dialog box from appearing while trying to keep Ubuntu light by not having to install more things as much as possible?
gnome-screenshot
has-f
option to specify store file. The following command should be the replacement you are looking for:One way! is to replace
gnome-screenshot
to be run with addition parameter:Move original:
Create a modified command:
sudo nano /usr/bin/gnome-screenshot.mod
Make it executable:
Create replacement symbolic link: