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October 28th, 2009
What is Shutter?
Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program. You can take a screenshot of a specific area, window, your whole screen, or even of a website – apply different effects to it, draw on it to highlight points, and then upload to an image hosting site, all within one window.
Features:
- take a screenshot of your complete desktop, a rectangular area or capture a website
- take screenshot directly or with a specified delay time
- save the screenshots to a specified directory and name them in a convenient way
(using special wild-cards) - Shutter is fully integrated into the Gnome Desktop (TrayIcon etc.)
- generate thumbnails directly when you are taking a screenshot and set a size level in %
- Shutter session collection
- keep track of all screenshots during session
- copy screeners to clipboard
- print screenshots
- delete screenshots
- rename your file
- upload your files directly to Image-Hosters (e.g. http://ubuntu-pics.de), retrieve all the needed links and share them with others
- edit your screenshots directly using the embedded drawing tool
Shutter is an open-source program, licensed under GPL v3.
do you see video support in the future this could be better than snagit.
Not at the moment, but I do recommend gtk-recordmydesktop.
Could we see in a future screenshots of areas with scrollbars?
In Linux I’ve only seen this feature in Screengrab for Firefox
You mean a screenshot of a site with a scrollbar?
You can use the section tool then to do that – select the firefox window and then the display area under it.
Sorry about my english
I mean take a screenshot of any window with a scrollbar (not only Firefox)
No, sorry. This is currently not possible, but i think this would be a nice feature for future versions. In fact we need to extend the “section” tool to scroll the window content automatically while capturing.
That’s the idea! It would be nice have a feature like this.
Good luck and thank you for a nice project like Shutter!
Hi,
this program is very useful for me!
I have a question..
when I capture a rectangular area, a “mini window” with zoom and coordinate appears in top left or bottom left on screen..
but this is also reflected in the captured image!
can you solve this problem?
many tanks
Roberto
@Roberto
That shouldn’t happen. Are you using Compiz with a long delay time, maybe? We haven’t worked around that yet.
@Roberto
Is the zoom window in your selected area when releasing the mouse button? I think this is not handled properly at the moment.
For now you can turn the zoom window off when selecting very large areas of your screen (submenu of the “selection” button in the toolbar).
Hi, Vadim and Romario,
I use Ubuntu 8.10 with Compiz enabled…
ehm.. what is “Delay time” ?
Yes Romario, zoom window is in my selected area..
But no problem, now I have turned off zoom window option !
Thanks for your answers
Roberto
@Roberto
You can set the delay time (in seconds) in the preferences to take a delayed screenshot, e.g. Shutter waits 5 seconds after starting the capture until the screenshot is taken.
If you set the delay time to 1-2 seconds the zoom window should not appear in your screenshots. Nevertheless this is not really important because you already have a workaround by disabling the zoom window.
Generally it is a bug that the zoom window appears on a screenshot and I’ll open a new bug report for this.
Great project, I am looking forward to seeing it grow. I love the plugin model!
Thanks for the screen capture link Vadim, do you know of a program that will automate the web optimisation process? I have found a nice sister program to use with Shutter is Phatch ( http://photobatch.stani.be/ )
@Damien
Also – are there plans for a set dimension selection ability (as in a 300px X 300px capture area)? I know that you can use the built in editor but it would be a complete streamline solution…
@Damien
There was a similar question at launchpad.net:
https://answers.launchpad.net/shutter/+question/65782
There is already a bug filed for this as well:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/shutter/+bug/371550
Wow! Finally.
Screencapture ala snagit was one of the few tools I missed in Ubuntu. The other one is FinePrint
With shutter a real alternative for snagit now seems to make it’s way:
Fantastic!
@Romario
If you had this feature I would have your babies. In all seriousness, there’s no application out there that anyone knows of that will capture a scrolling region! I would put this high on your list, since having it would skyrocket you to the top of the screenshot apps list! (Not that you’re not pretty much already there, but still.
I backup a previous post. I don’t like (hate) W$ and Snagit, but the function to take a screen capture of scrolling window is a most than useful capability.
> In fact we need to extend the “section” tool to scroll the window content automatically while capturing.
I hope the function will be implemented in Shutter very soon. Thanks for reading.
@nomnex
We know that this is an important feature and we are working on it, but it doesn’t seem to be trivial…
Thanks, Romario for this app! I’m fairly new to Linux but I’m running it in a VM on Windows Vista. This is a very nice program. I too was looking for something that could take a screenshot of a scrolling window. Shutter is so close!
My actual need is to take a full scrolling screenshot of a browser window that is already open (not via URL). The only thing is that I need to be able to execute this functionality from a command line. For example, I have a hotmail email up on my screen, and I’d use Shutter to then take a full screenshot of it by calling from a command line or other app.
Great work on the program!
@Travis
Thanks for your comment. I am really looking forward to implement this in future releases.
Merci pour cette superbe réalisation.
I looove Shutter! At last, goodbye SnagIt ! I’m sticking to Ubuntu for work. hehe
This is great software!
Thanks a lot.
Yeah !
le programme de capture dont je rêvais.
Merci beaucoup pour votre travail.
Good job, thank you.
– franck
One of the best screenshot software good job and thanks !
Is it possible to leave a rectangular area or capture unchanged for the next screensot? And, better, add to application a mode of creating series of screensot with the same capturing parameters after specified interval? Use case: I want create screenshots of 10 different tabs of one window. I should set rectangular area once, set interval (for example 1-2 second), push button and create 10 screenshots into files named like file_1, file_2, … Between every screenshot I expected to do some simple task such as switch to the next tab with the mouse or keyboard. It would be really greate!
This looks very nice, but i would like to see extra features included such as start & stop quick keys for a continued time delayed recording, also when i tried to capture gnome menu interactions using the PrtSc & Alt+PrtSc the application failed to capture these requests which is something i was looking for. cant wait to see an increase within the feature set as the concept and application look great.
This feature is nearly finished and will be included in the next version of Shutter, see:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/shutter/+bug/344754
There is already a bug for this, but there has been no effort to implement this yet:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/shutter/+bug/338964
Stay tuned…
You mean the possibility to stop & resume the delay when capturing?
Please file a new bug for this (importance=wishlist):
https://bugs.launchpad.net/shutter
If you don’t want to do this yourself, please contact me again so I can do this for you.
Hotkeys do not work in general when a menu is active, because menus take the keyboard focus – this is not a bug in Shutter.
But you can easily capture a menu with Shutter anyway, see:
http://shutter-project.org/wp-content/uploads/capture_menu_0.85.ogv