screenshots Where to find screenshots in Linux

[Charles]

For anyone trying to find where Fishing Planet screenshots are located they're stored in a directory/folder under:

/home/<your linux username>/.steam/steam/userdata/

This userdata folder contains user data for most of the steam programs you install, so you might have 1 directory/folder below this, or many depending on how many steam games/programs you have installed. The folders below the userdata folder are numerical, there's no "fishing_planet" folder here, so you'll have to browse each folder. Below the numerical folder there is likely another numbered folder and then a folder named remote. If you keep navigating you'll find the right folder below labelled screenshots.

Note that after /home/<your username> (in my case, in the screenshot below it's /home/charm/) the directory/folder begins with a period: .steam/steam/. There are two directories/folders here, the first is .steam and the one below is just steam. For those who don't know about dotfile directories they're generally not shown in Linux. So if I used the Files program to navigate to /home/charm I normally wouldn't see the .steam folder. To navigate to the .steam folder from the Files program press CTRL-L with the Files program selected, it will now let you type in the field as you would the URL section of a web browser, so you can append your username directory with the .steam folder. In my case: /home/charm/.steam.

Here's a screenshot of what that looks like:

Once you've found the full path to the screenshots folder you can select it and use CTRL-C to copy the location. Then right click on the Files program, select New Window, and click on the Desktop icon. In the Files program white-space area right click and select Open Terminal. This opens a command prompt terminal at your /home/<your username>/Desktop. We're going to create a symbolic link to the Fishing Planet folder so you don't have to remember where you have to navigate each time. Note: where I have [SHIFT+INSERT] you don't type SHIFT+INSERT, hold the SHIFT key and press the INSERT key (this pastes the location we selected earlier):

ln -S [SHIFT+INSERT] Fishing_Planet_Screenshots

That is a small "L" at the beginning and a capital "S" after the minus/tack. In the Files / Desktop folder you should now see a folder that links directly to the screenshots folder for Fishing Planet. You can call the symbolic link/folder anything you want, I called it Fishing_Planet_Screenshots above, but the name is really up to you.

For some this is probably very basic, but I thought it might be helpful for anyone newer to Linux. This may not work exactly the same if you're using a distribution other than Ubuntu or a different desktop environment (though I'm pretty sure it would work the same in XFCE). Hope this helps someone out there.

 

Cheers,

 

Chaslinux

[Charles]

On 6/4/2020 at 10:02 PM, Charles said:

ln -S [SHIFT+INSERT] Fishing_Planet_Screenshots

Sorry folks this should have been a small "s":

ln -s [SHIFT+INSERT] Fishing_Planet_Screentshots

The [SHIFT+INSERT] pastes the location you browsed to in the instructions above. Also worth mentioning not to put a / at the end of Fishing_Planet_Screenshots (or whatever you call your shortcut/symbolic link). It's a file (shortcut/symbolic link), not a directory we're creating.