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Till 16.04, when I press Print Screen, we used to get the "Save to" option which enabled us to save the screenshot into a desired folder. Now, with 18.04, pressing Print Screen saves the screenshot directly in the Pictures folder. I am unable to find a way to save the screenshot into the desired folder.

I have tried binding Print Screen with gnome-screenshot -i. However, this option currently requires me to go through two steps (press Print Screen and then again press "Take screenshot" button) instead of a single step (just Print Screen) to get the "Save to" dialogue box.

Any help is appreciated in this regard.

pomsky
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Sharma SRK Chaitanya Yamijala
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  • You probably can't achieve that (easily) with gnome-screenshot, that's how it works in GNOME. So your best alternative is to use gnome-screenshot -i as you' already mentioned. Also you can change the default save location from Pictures to some other directory if you want. – pomsky Dec 28 '18 at 20:42
  • Please refer to this answer for an ugly workaround to replicate the old behaviour: https://askubuntu.com/a/1105345/480481 – pomsky Dec 29 '18 at 12:45
  • I really do not think my question is anywhere close to the question which you guys are pointing to. – Sharma SRK Chaitanya Yamijala Dec 31 '18 at 18:39
  • @pomsky, as I said, I am referring to the similarity between the other person's question and my question. I am not at all referring to the validity of your answer to my question. His/her question is on how to select a specific area and save it to the clipboard or a folder (which can simply be achieved by binding a key with "gnome-screenshot -i"). His question is not at all pointed towards the steps involved in saving the screenshot. My question is specifically about converting the two step procedure to a single step. Hope you agree with me. – Sharma SRK Chaitanya Yamijala Jan 01 '19 at 19:14
  • The other question is also essentially about bringing back the old behaviour as yours is. The asker just mentioned that they "usually take screenshot of an area" (emphasis mine) and hence they use + instead of just . The core of the question is getting the dialogue as in the screenshot back like older Ubuntu releases just like yours. Just remember duplicates have a big role in the Stack Exchange network, they work as signposts and help organising the sites. Otherwise we would be having almost identical questions with almost identical answers clogging the sites. – pomsky Jan 01 '19 at 21:15
  • If you disagree with the duplicate, please consider posting a new question at https://meta.askubuntu.com/ raising the issue to get a collective opinion from the Ask Ubuntu community. – pomsky Jan 01 '19 at 21:20

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