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I just fresh installed Ubuntu 12.04 but using my old 11.10 /home partition as the /home point for the 12.04. (update: in other words, the 12.04 applications should most likely use my old 11.10 application configurations. actually they are.)

Weird thing is, I can not seemed to change the default saved directory for gnome-screenshot. I tried to change the saved location from ~/Pictures to ~/Pictures/Screenshots at the first screenshot. But in the second screenshot, the saved directory is still ~/Picture.

Here is the gconf.xml:

petra@petra-laptop:~$ cat .gconf/apps/gnome-screenshot/%gconf.xml 
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gconf>
    <entry name="last_save_directory" mtime="1335771751" type="string">
        <stringvalue>file:///home/petra/Pictures/Screenshots</stringvalue>
    </entry>
    <entry name="border_effect" mtime="1335771746" type="string">
        <stringvalue>none</stringvalue>
    </entry>
    <entry name="delay" mtime="1335771746" type="int" value="0"/>
    <entry name="include_pointer" mtime="1335771746" type="bool" value="false"/>
    <entry name="include_border" mtime="1335771746" type="bool" value="true"/>
</gconf>

The screenshot should use the last_save_directory, right? (update: the unix timestamp shows 1335771751 which means Mon 30 Apr 2012 02:42:31 PM WIT GMT+7 few hours after I installed the 12.04, so this should means the gnome-screenshot successfully wrote the gconf.xml file)

And I also tried changing it from the CompizConfig Setting Manager, but also gives no luck.

Is there any other way to do it? (or should I report it to the Launchpad? I've never done it before, though)

update: Here's the fstab

petra@petra-laptop:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=b7b72b03-f7e6-4665-a4cd-fa0df5b2a0cf /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /home was on /dev/sda7 during installation
UUID=6c4d7a04-1e5f-4514-98a9-3e37867b34e8 /home           ext4    defaults        0       2
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=5ecd35ad-d3bf-482c-bdac-dc3eae31ee8e none            swap    sw              0       0

update:

I just tried capturing few screenshot and saved it to other directories instead of ~/Pictures/Screenshots. Apparently the gconf.xml wasn't updated after the latest screenshots.

Petra Barus
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  • Are you using Unity or Gnome-Shell? – fossfreedom Apr 30 '12 at 09:06
  • I am using Unity – Petra Barus Apr 30 '12 at 09:13
  • hmmm ... cannot reproduce this. Maybe your fstab is wrong? Can you add the contents of /etc/fstab to your question. – fossfreedom Apr 30 '12 at 09:28
  • okay, i pasted the fstab. what does it have to do with the gnome-screenshot? – Petra Barus Apr 30 '12 at 09:31
  • ... was double checking that you didnt have some sort of strange mounting issue since you were using your old /home. All looks ok. In that case - no idea why you are seeing this and I'm not :( – fossfreedom Apr 30 '12 at 09:38
  • I just tried capturing few screenshot and saved it to other directories instead of ~/Pictures/Screenshots. Apparently the gconf.xml wasn't updated after the latest screenshots. Shouldn't it be the place to store the configuration for gnome-screenshot? – Petra Barus Apr 30 '12 at 09:46
  • it appears to be correct - its correctly updated on my machine. – fossfreedom Apr 30 '12 at 09:53
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    Mine is a "clean" install of 12.04 with a new (and just the one /home) and I see something similar. Pressing printscreen to take a screen shot always suggests ~/home/Pictures as the default save location no matter how many times I select ~/home/Desktop. Interestingly, if I run gnome-screenshot -i from a terminal (to use the time delay), it suggests saving to ~/home/Desktop! –  Apr 30 '12 at 10:09
  • @vasa1: yeah, i just tried after reading your comment. i run the gnome-screenshot -i, it suggested saving to ~/Pictures/Screenshots, just like what I needed. – Petra Barus Apr 30 '12 at 10:14
  • The mystery remains. In my case, this gconf.xml seems to reflect the terminal command with the -i switch. I feel that is so because of the time delay is mentioned in that file and that gconf.xml file has Desktop as destination. I'm wondering whether there are different settings for gnome-screenshot when launched by pressing printscreen (which offers Pictures as the destination) versus being run from the terminal (which offers Desktop.). –  Apr 30 '12 at 12:48
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    Same problem here. Seems to be a bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-screenshot/+bug/977228 – Fern Moss May 06 '12 at 04:05
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    possible duplicate of Default save directory for gnome-screenshot? – desgua May 09 '12 at 15:10

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