Shutter as default

To configure Shutter as the default tool to take screenshots with when you press PrtSc or Alt+PrtSc, here’s what you need to do:

gnome

  1. Go to Edit ▸ Preferences in Shutter
  2. In the Keyboard tab, enable both the “Capture” and “Capture with selection” checkboxes:
  3. That’s it! Now the usual PrtSc and Alt+PrtSc keybindings will use Shutter to take the screenshots.

kde

  1. Go to System Settings ▸ Input Actions
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  2. Create a new global shortcut (right-mouse click) and select Command/URL shortcut_kde4_2_jd1Vkg
  3. You can now use every parameter (–full, –select etc.) Shutter knows and setup a custom trigger
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xfce

  1. Go to Xfce 4 Settings Manager ▸ Keyboard
  2. Click on the Add-Button to create a new shortcut. You can now use every parameter (–full, –select etc.) Shutter knows

lxde

  1. LXDE does not provide any GUI to manage global shortcuts yet. Please see the instructions here.



31 Comments

  1. Savasten
    3. March 2012

    I believe argument –selection needs to be changed to –select.

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  2. Shanto
    25. December 2011

    For me, modifying these two gconf keys work well under Arch/Gnome3:

    http://i.imgur.com/0T1gx.png

    Perfect replacement of gnome-screenshot with shutter.

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    • Shanto
      25. December 2011

      Fixed screenshot URL: http://i.imm.io/dve7.png

      Replace gnome-screenshot key-bindings with shutter equivalents:
      # gconftool-2 -st string /apps/metacity/keybinding_commands/command_screenshot “/usr/bin/shutter –full”
      # gconftool-2 -st string /apps/metacity/keybinding_commands/command_window_screenshot “/usr/bin/shutter –active”

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  3. jack
    22. February 2011

    Afater the yum upadate

    [root@localhost /]# yum install shutter

    Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
    addons | 951 B 00:00
    base | 2.1 kB 00:00
    extras | 2.1 kB 00:00
    update | 1.9 kB 00:00
    Setting up Install Process
    No package shutter available.
    Nothing to do

    I tried to run again

    [root@localhost ~]# yum install shutter
    Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
    Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
    Setting up Install Process
    No package shutter available.
    Nothing to do
    [root@localhost ~]#

    why was there “No package shutter available”?(My OS is RHEL 5)

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    • Romario
      22. February 2011

      As far as I know, there is no package for RHEL5 yet.

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      • Glemi
        17. April 2012

        Is there any way to install shutter on RHEL 5? Maybe bypassing the package management system? I saw programs where a “generic linux” tarball was supplied that you install without using yum.

        In other words is it just a matter of wrapping the software in a rpm package for this OS or are there more profound compatibility issues at hand.

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        • Romario
          20. April 2012

          I’ve asked one of our users about it (the one who is responsible for the rhel6 packages). Here is what he said:

          There is no package for EL5 unfortunately and I think it will be quite/very hard to backport it to RHEL5 because the software stack is so old now.
          Besides the obvious advice to upgrade to EL6 I don’t know what to tell you.

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  4. Romario
    24. June 2010

    @karatedog
    Yes, you are right. This seems to be a bug, see
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kubuntu-default-settings/+bug/293213

    You might want to use an alternative shortcut. Ctrl+Print for example.

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