Shutter – Featureful Screenshot Tool

This looks like a great tool! Are there any plugins available that are not pre-installed? I’d love to be able to easily add text and simple graphics (e.g., arrows and highlights) to screenshots.

I want to use P as my trigger for capturing a selection. I left the gnome-keybinding set to the default for Capture (e.g. Print).

In the capture with selection, i have P

I have selection selected in the drop down.

when I press the key combination, nothing happens. What am I doing wrong?

This is a great tool but web snap doesn’t work well only site it ever take’s a snap of is this one (lol)

tried tons of sites with no luck anyone got some ideas as to what is causing this.

Using Ubuntu Intrepid

I want to start shutter in the notification area only. Is this possible?

Hi! I can not find how to capture with scroll (i.e. including the areas of a document/page currently hidden because it is larger than application’s window).

Thanks a lot in advance.

Hi, I’m trying to get drop shadows on shapes and rounded corners on my rectangles
Is there a plug-in to do this ?
Thx

Hi, first of all thanks for this great tool. I am truely looking forward to its feature-rich future. At present I am having a little problem with version 0.70.2 running with Kubuntu 8.10 and KDE 4.2: When launching shutter it does not use the preferences saved either as Default or with a different Name, but always returns to the Factory Default. Like with previous Snagit, I prefer to record all captures in a distint directory with filenames set to %Y%m%d–%NNN. Once set in preferences and saved, shutter perfectly behaves as intended. After reboot all these settings are “lost” and if saved with a filename different from Default, again nothing is applied to remedy the situation.
Perhaps I overlooked something and would be pleased if someone can point me in the right direction.

Detlef

Without the ability to capture with scroll (including the areas of a document/page currently hidden because it is larger than application’s window), this application is of little use. However, for those who need it, install the Screengrab! extension in Firefox. At least you’ll be able to get captures with scroll on web pages, where it’s needed most. For everything else, as far as I can tell there is not a single app for Linux that will capture with scroll. This is needed badly.

How do you append the date to the filename instead of the number?

Thanks! Could this list of wildcards be put into a help file on the program?

@Antonio
Of course! Once we get one.

@Romario
Thanks Romario, it did help indeed.

How to make a screanshot of all site window not just part which is seing on the monitor screan (I mean scrolling vertically and horizontally)?

Hey Romario,
thanks for this application!

Is it possibile to automate screenshots? I’d like to grab a screenshot every 1 minute and also have the files being automatically uploaded.

I use virtual environment like Opensim and Second Life and this would give me the ability to show on the web what’s happening inside the virtual environments.

I’m really loving Shutter; it’s been very helpful in preparing instructional materials. However, I’ve been having a hard time getting Shutter to capture menus, both drop-down and right-click menus. Is there a simple way to do this? Am I missing something?

This is an excellent tool! However I can’t use it exclusively because it doesn’t have the delay functionality. If I want a screenshot of a menu, how can I do that? Come on, put in the delay… how hard can it be!

Thanks for a great product.

Oops, I just saw the delay functionality is already there, sorry about that. Now it’s an even greater product!

Capture menus/sub-menu.

Sorry, that does not work for me. I need to capture menus > sub-menus for sofware documentation.

I have set a delay 5 s. and use section. Let’s take a web browser app (i.e. FF) if I position the cursor on the menu bar, I click none of them. I cannot even select the menu bar itself. Shutter will print the visible part of the web page on my screen.

Little help please.

nomnex :
I click none of them.

Edit “I can click none of them”

I surely will, thanks for the feedback. What’s the link for feature requests/discussion? Do you plan to open a forum dedicated to shutter’s questions? might be a lot of work to maintain though, I have read on the page you were two people running the project. Regards.

PS: Out of curiosity, what’s the distro you use on your print screens? It looks like Debian (background pic.)

3x thanks (nice theme btw)

I surely will, tyanks for the feedback. What's the link for feature requests/discussion? Do you plan to open a forum dedicated to shutter's questions? might be a lot of work to maintain though, I have read on the page you were two people running the project. Regards.

PS: Out of curiosity, what's the distro you use on your print screens? It looke like Debian (background pic.);

I really like Shutter! It’s the closest to Snagit I’ve seen on Linux.

However, its screenshot seems fuzzy compared to one taken with Gimp. Example: I take a Shutter screenshot of a Terminal window and it’s fuzzy compared to the Gimp File | Acquire | Screenshot of the same window.

Am I doing something wrong? I use Ubuntu 8.04 with the latest updates.

Romario: Thanks! You helped me see the real problem:

When I save as a png file then open in the Gnome viewer & print, it’s fine

BUT when I driect print from Shutter it’s fuzzy.

Sometime I just want a screen print without having to save as a png first.

Is there something else I’m missing or does direct print need tweaks?

Thanks!

This is a feature request after using Shutter for a few months. The function Uplodad/Download would be handier if I had the option to send the print sceen directly by email. More than once a day I need to send a print screen to a recipient by email. The quicker the better. (Ubuntu linux 9.04 here). Thanks

vmarquez :
Hi! I can not find how to capture with scroll (i.e. including the areas of a document/page currently hidden because it is larger than application’s window).
Thanks a lot in advance.

That’s exactly what I needed… hopefully you can get it soon, I think that’s what makes SnagIt so good in Windows, even without this feature you have done a very good application, thanks a lot

Love Shutter – but I would like it more if I had an option to NOT display the shutter window even after I take the screen shot — 99% of the time, I just paste the clipboard directly into an email – I don’t want or need the shutter window to show up and take the focus. Possible?

@Romario
Wow, amazing, Thanks!

Sorry I didn’t find it in launchpad before posting.

Hey,
let me say, Shutter is the best screenshot tool for Linux, I found so far. But as I use WinSnap in Windows, i am missing something in Shutter. Maybe someone can help me here:
1) Don’t show the main window after any kind of screenshot is taken. Most of the time I use screenshots via clipboard, so I don’t need the main window opening after taking a screenshot. Is this possible?
2) Currently there are only two shortcuts available for screenshot actions. I could use at least three. Capture screen, capture window and capture custom selection. Any ideas?

Best regards
Andi

Thank you I love this nice program and use it as GScrot0.38 before.
Now Shutter 0.86 Linuxmint 8/~Ubuntu Karmic:
I have now for a while problems with websites.
http://www.google.com is possible.
yours and a lot/most other not
I get allways this error gtk-message:

failed to retrieve porperty `GtkTreeView::odd-row-color’ of type `GdkColor# from rc file value ”((GString*) 0x973e340)” of type ‘ GString’
Load timed out; consider using -force or increaseing the timeout (use 0 for no timeout)

What is this?
and can you help me?

Really nice tool (“Menu” capture is really useful), but it is unable to add application to “Open with” list. If, for example, I’d like to use gpaint instead of GIMP – how can I to configure that?

Romario :
@Tim

Tim :
I get allways this error gtk-message:

failed to retrieve porperty `GtkTreeView::odd-row-color’ of type `GdkColor# from rc file value ”((GString*) 0×973e340)” of type ‘ GString’
Load timed out; consider using -force or increaseing the timeout (use 0 for no timeout)

The first message is not an error caused by Shutter – looks like a problem with your current theme. But this has nothing to do with the web-capture.
Shutter uses gnome-web-photo (a command line utility) to capture webpages. In newer versions there seem to be some problems with sites that are using JavaScript (nearly every site does this nowadays).

Thank you Romario,
I saw that Shutter uses gnome-web-photo and tried to compile but stuck.
The first error above, I get only with Shutter/gnome-web-photo. Have to look its compiz&theme&gnome&whatever Thanks

i am using gentoo linux as windows mamanger dwm and openbox. i allread teted gnome-keybinding with keys like or or in the Preferences, but nothing work.

what wrong? its a bug that ouside of gnome shutter dont works corectly with keybinding?

How can you get shutter to not save files automatically? e.g. when you just want to crop a printscreen and then paste into a document?

Vadim :
You can already do that! Try Screenshot ▸ Edit. To add highlights, use the buttons on the left, and to add arrows, see and insert image button on the bottom-right.

When I try to do that, the Screenshot->Edit is greyed out so I cannot do it. Also, I don’t see any buttons on the left. Am I missing something? Thanks!

Awesome program!

Could you please advise:

Is it possible to start the Shutter Drawing Tool programme on it’s own? What’s its name?
I’d like to make it my default photo editor as it contains everything I need for altering pictures. Is this possible?

Thanks.