A Quick Look at Shutter 0.86.4 - Powerful Desktop Screenshot Application

Shutter is probably the most powerful screenshot application for Linux, and the main reason for this is that it comes with tons of configuration options for the final process of taking a simple screenshot. And why not, considering there are people out there who need to take a screenshot of a single window or a desktop region instead of fullscreen only, like the GNOME default screenshot program. Of course, there is KSnapshot which offers these two options too, but that's where similarities stop.


Shutter 0.86.4 in Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat Beta


Shutter has much more to offer than the usual screenshot program. It allows you to take the screenshot of the fullscreen, selection (press Enter after selecting the rectangular area to take the screenshot), window, menu, tooltip, and it also provides a changeable delay from when you give the command until the actual screenshot is taken. You can print the image on-the-fly directly from shutter, without the need to open an external image viewer.

Shutter even comes with a basic image editor, and allows you to run effects plugins via the Screenshot->Run a plugin... menu entry. To open the editor go to Screenshot->Edit. Here you can use rudimentary paint tools like drawing lines or shapes, but you can also export the result to any popular image format and even to a SVG or PDF file.


Integrated image editor


At first I thought Shutter cannot take a screenshot of itself, because it hides itself automatically to clear the screen, but there is an option in the Preferences to disable this behaviour.

Speaking of preferences, this is Shutter's real strong point. It comes with probably every configuration option imaginable. To list some of them:
- can save screenshots as PNG, JPG or BMP
- it allows to configure the default name for screenshots, arranging them by default as $name_%NNN (where NNN is 001, 002 and so on)
- include or exclude the mouse cursor
- zoom into the selected region
- include or exclude window decorations
- show or hide the main window after taking a screenshot
- integrate in the system tray
- pop-up notifications
- bind keys in GNOME

Currently, Ubuntu 10.10 Beta comes with Shutter 0.86.3 but you can install the latest release from here. To install the version which ships in the repositories, type in a terminal sudo apt-get install shutter or use the Applications->Ubuntu Software Center application for a graphical installation.Source URL: http://ashesgarrett.blogspot.com/search/label/shutter
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Shutter - Powerful Screenshot Tool for Linux

GNOME has a basic screenshot application called gnome-screenshot, KDE has an advanced one called KSnapshot, which includes options to take screenshots of selected regions, fullscreen, or window under cursor, with or without a time delay (for taking screenshots of menus for example). But neither one of them compares to Shutter, a complex screenshot tool with many features, and the possibility to edit and apply effects directly from within it.


Shutter 0.80.1


Shutter allows you to take screenshots of the fullscreen, a specified window, a section of window or just a screen region. It will save all the screenshots taken in the current session and will allow you to either save them to the local hard drive, supporting many formats, including PNG and JPG, or to directly upload them to imageshack.us, imagebanana.com or ubuntu-pics.de. Even FTP uploads are alowed.

The nice powerful features of Shutter include the ability to edit and perform various effects on the screenshot. For example, some of the effects plugins it comes with are:
- 3D rotate, rotate the image offering a 3D effect
- negate, replaces every pixel with its complementary colour
- sepia, colour your screenshot using the sepia effect
- PDF export, to export your screenshot to PDF

And many more are available too. You can even print to PDF or PostScript, and Shutter will also allow taking screenshots of web pages.


The Preferences window will allow to customise various aspect of Shutter, like the name and format of the saved image, actions, capture delay (which is important if you want to take screenshots of menus), include or not window border, tray integration, global shortcut for taking screenshots in GNOME, upload services and plugins.

Shutter is an awesome tool, and if you take screenshots a lot, it will surely prove more useful than the default application GNOME comes with.
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How-To: Set Up and Install Shutter 0.80.1 in Debian 5.0 Lenny

Shutter is powerful screenshot taking application written in Perl and using the GTK toolkit. Currently at version 0.80.1, Shutter offers a PPA for Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty but it is not included in Debian Lenny repositories.


Shutter 0.80.1 running in Debian Lenny


Setting it up in Debian Lenny is easy, just follow these steps:

Install the needed dependencies to run Shutter
Open up Konsole or GNOME Terminal and type as root:

su
apt-get install perl libgnome2-gconf-perl libgnome2-wnck-perl libgtk2-imageview-perl

These are Perl modules needed by Shutter. After the installation is over, go to their official website and download the latest tarball available (at the time of writing this is http://shutter-project.org/wp-content/uploads/releases/tars/shutter-0.80.1.tar.gz). Alternately you can fetch it from command-line:

wget http://shutter-project.org/wp-content/uploads/releases/tars/shutter-0.80.1.tar.gz

The file shutter-0.80.1.tar.gz will get saved in the current working directory. Now uncompress it:

tar -xzf shutter-0.80.1.tar.gz

Next, copy the directory shutter-0.80.1 in a location of your choice, and to fire it up run the script named shutter located in the shutter-0.80.1/bin directory:

./shutter-0.80.1/bin/shutter

You can also make a desktop shortcut or a menu entry for it. This should be all.
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