So as a workaround you may now add another custom keyboard shortcut for gnome-screenshot which will save captured screenshots to ~/Desktop. Put file:///home/YOUR_USERNAME/Desktop in the Custom value box.Īlternatively, you may just run the following command in Terminal: gsettings set -screenshot auto-save-directory 'file:///home/YOUR_USERNAME/Desktop'īut even after doing this if you press PrintScreen, captured screenshots will be saved in ~\Pictures on GNOME 3.8 or later (see this bug report).Navigate to /org/gnome/gnome-screenshot/auto-save-directory.
Turns out it's not so straightforward while capturing a screenshot with the PrintScreen key in GNOME version 3.8 or later.įirst you may try to set ~/Desktop (for example) as the autosave directory for gnome-screenshot following the steps below.
