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:
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- Go to System Settings ▸ Keyboard
Gnome/Unity – System Settings
- Switch to the Shortcut tab and add a new custom shortcut
Gnome/Unity – Add new custom shortcut
- Enter a Name (e.g. Shutter) and a Command (e.g. shutter -f)
Gnome/Unity – Enter command
- Click the new row and hold down the new keys in order to add/edit the accelerator
Gnome/Unity – Edit accelerator
- That’s it! Now the usual PrtSc keybinding will use Shutter to take the screenshots.
- Go to System Settings ▸ Shortcuts and Gestures
KDE – System settings
- Create a new global shortcut (right-mouse click) and select Command/URL
KDE – Add new custom shortcut
- You can now edit the associated Action …
KDE – Edit command
- … and Trigger
KDE – Edit shortcut
- That’s it!
- Go to Settings ▸ Keyboard
Xfce – Keyboard settings
- Click on the Add-Button to create a new shortcut
Xfce – Add new shortcut
- Enter a command in the next dialogue (e.g. shutter -f)
Xfce – Enter command
- Click the new row and hold down the new keys in order to add/edit the shortcut. That’s it.
- LXDE does not provide any GUI to manage global shortcuts yet. Please see the instructions here.
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@Romario
Yes, I have switched to KDE (under Gnome, Shutter works OK). If I try to set a new global hotkey for Shutter – the Alt+PrtSc – it throws an alert window, with “The key you just pressed is not supported by Qt.”
How you can make Shutter to react to Alt+PrtSc when Qt itself tells me that it cannot handle it?
What exactly do you mean? Qt? You are using KDE and hotkeys are not working?
@Alex
No, this is a bug. This part of Shutter will be completely rewritten for the next major version, see:
https://launchpad.net/shutter/+milestone/0.87
Thanks for your patience.
Oh sorry,
I overlooked Romarios post from september.
But if I start in commandline
shutter –full &
and then again
shutter –full &
I have 2 shutter started
pgrep -l shutter
2905 shutter
2919 shutter
Is this the way it should be?
Hi,
really great program.
I’m using KDE.
By changing the shortcut to start shutter I can start shutter by pressing the ‘Print’-Key for example.
The problem is, if shutter is already started I don’t want a new shutter. I just want to take a new screenshot. Changing the keybinding in shutter doesn’t seem to be recognized by kde.
Is this possible?
Thank you,
Alex
This is cool. I never noticed that option, but it’s definitely something I’ll use.
No, generally it’s not. I’ve tried to reproduce this but I did not succeed.
In your first command (PrintScreen) there is no “Capture” parameter set
(--full, --window, --section etc.). In this case it is expected behavior that Shutter starts more than one time.Currently this is not possible but I’ve created a new bug report for this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/shutter/+bug/429677
Thanks for your suggestion.
Shutter 0.80.1 in Jaunty 64 bits with compiz activated. I changed key binding options in Gnome compatibility:
PrintScreen is shutter –disable_systray
Alt PrintScreen is shutter –window –disable_systray
This way I don’t overcrowded the systray. But I realised that more than one instance of shutter is launched if I press PrintScreen and also Alt Printscreen.
Is this behavior normal ?
I’ve bound a key to shutter –window. However, that just lets you select a window. What would be good is if it simply captured the currently active window whatever that happened to be (sort of like –full captures the whole screen). Is there a way to do that?