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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 C...
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matthewsnyder
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2024-01-10T17:17:43Z (11 months ago)
Alternative to Cheese that allows custom capture directory?
I use [Cheese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese_(software)) 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.