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I love it too and was disappointed to read recently on HN it's not easy to do on Linux, as I intend to switch to Ubuntu on a desktop soon. If anyone knows the b

I love it too and was disappointed to read recently on HN it's not easy to do on Linux, as I intend to switch to Ubuntu on a desktop soon. If anyone knows the best way to set it up I'd like to hear it. However, it's become a pain lately anyway in that it doesn't work for images [maybe over a certain size?] stored in iCloud (unless it's already downloaded) which includes the desktop folder and therefore screenshots (because letting you store screnshots anywhere else by default would be logical and we can't have that). Nor does it show anything to indicate this, it just appears to randomly work or not work. I wish they'd send a lower res version for previews, or something, as more and more stuff moves to the cloud.

systemtest 8y ago
Do you store the full iCloud contents on your drive or does it download on demand? I am not sure if Quicklook works on the latter
thisacctforreal 8y ago
You can set the screenshot destination using: defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Screenshots killall SystemUIServer There are a few handy things you can configure using defaults(1).
coatmatter 8y ago
I'm fairly sure the default file explorer in Ubuntu/Fedora (nautilus) offers a preview spacebar function but I don't use it enough to know whether it's limited to images. I haven't looked to see whether there's a keyboard shortcut to jump to the next image. It's not up/down arrow.
coatmatter 8y ago
As far as macOS goes, you can point the default screenshots location away from your iCloud drive. I did that fairly early on because uploading every random screenshot I take on a 1 Mbps upload connection is insanity.