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I use Cheese to take photos with my webcam.

The photos get saved under ~/Pictures/Webcam which I don't like. I want them somewhere else. In typical, presumptuous Gnome fashion, there is no UI in Cheese to "move file to another directory", nor is there any place in settings to change the default path.

Cheese does do a decent job of actually working, though. It can cope with things like multiple cameras being connected and disconnected. So that's the part I do like.

Is there a similar Linux program for capturing images from a webcam? I use this mostly to "scan" documents with a document camera. Both GUI and CLI solutions are fine, I just want something that is straightforward to use.

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When reading your title in the question list, my first thought was "this belongs on cooking.codidact"... (2 comments)

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After posting this, I realized that I could simply replace ~/Pictures/Webcam with a symlink. Perhaps this is what the devs intended, in some Zen/Koan way...

I would still like to know if there is a good alternative that provides this obvious feature directly. Also, with the symlink it's harder to change it on the fly, and it doesn't use the file picker GUI with bookmarks etc.

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Quasímodo‭ wrote 10 months ago

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"Perhaps this is what the devs intended" -> Hardly so, were that the case our $HOME would be littered with links.

But this is the source code:

        photo_path = g_get_user_special_dir (G_USER_DIRECTORY_PICTURES);
        g_free (priv->photo_path);

        /* Get XDG. */
        if (photo_path)
        {
            priv->photo_path = g_build_filename (photo_path, _("Webcam"), NULL);
        }

Maybe try export XDG_PICTURES_DIR=/tmp before launching Cheese, though it will always append "Webcam" to the directory. :|