I made my screenshots autosave to tmpfs (retrolemmy.com)

submitted 5 days ago by Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com to c/linux@programming.dev

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I take screenshots a lot using Spectacle, so I set my default save location to /run/user/1000/screenshots and made it autosave and copy to clipboard.

Since /run/user/1000/ is a tmpfs, it gets wiped on reboot, it doesn't write to my SSD, and unlike /tmp/ it's inaccessible by other users. I think it's really convenient!

Anyone else doing this? I also often download zip files to /run/user/1000/screenshots so I can extract and delete the zip file without wasting SSD writes lol.

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[-] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 points 5 days ago

yea, in Spectacle click the Options, Configure Spectacle

in General, check "Save file to default folder"