I never want screenshots to persist. I make them, I paste them, and I forget about them. I think most of the users are similar. Let’s have the ability to redirect the screenshots directory to /tmp.
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Or elsewhere. Right now it seems it is hardcoded to be in home. That’s annoying because why would i put media on an ssd? that’s what HDDS are for
It only goes to the picture folder by home. That’s not very convenient when my drive is elsewhere with media.
Anyone? desuuuuuuuuu
There’s currently no option to only copy a screenshot to the clipboard without saving the file; you can check gnome-shell#5208.
This is a different thing.
Currently, the location of the screenshots is XDG_PICTURES_DIR/Screenshots. If you change the location of the XDG_PICTURES_DIR, the screenshots will be saved under a directory there.
The original idea was to add a new XDG user directory, XDG_SCREENSHOTS_DIR so it could be localisable into different languages; unfortunately, that never worked out.
You can check gnome-shell#5370 for a setting to choose where to save screenshots.
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You can mount it to tmpfs or simply create a symlink:
ln -f -s -T /tmp "$(xdg-user-dir PICTURES)"/Screenshots
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Brilliant idea! Thank you!
/etc/fstab:
tmpfs /home/zooey/Pictures/Screenshots tmpfs defaults 0 0
What does this command do? Do i put desired directory into the XDG USER DIR PICTURES?