Comments on: Upload to Flickr

By: App Directory: The Best Screen Capture Tool For Linux | Lifehacker Australia

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 21:23:08 +0000

[...] Share to the web through an FTP server, Ubuntu One, or external services like ImageShack Flickr (via another program) [...]

By: Rake

Rake — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 21:20:10 +0000

Tapas thank you for this post. With your link I got with ubuntu.

By: Romario

Romario — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 12:24:36 +0000

Thanks for letting us know but you don’t longer need our custom packages. Simply install postr with Ubuntu Software Centre. I’ve removed the links accordingly.

By: Tapas

Tapas — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 08:23:36 +0000

Link for ubuntu one is broken giving 403 error

http://shutter-project.org/wp-content/uploads/releases/ubuntu_debs/libs/postr_0.12.3-1ubuntu2_all.deb

By: Chester

Chester — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:08:16 +0000

For uploading pics directly from your desktop to flickr, I can recommend you click.to http://www.clicktoapp.com
Just press STRG C and one click and you picture is in flickr. It’s a freeware product.

By: Romario

Romario — Mon, 16 May 2011 23:37:46 +0000

Updated, thx.

By: Braiam

Braiam — Fri, 13 May 2011 15:54:44 +0000

The maintainer has changed. Now the proyect page is: http://projects.gnome.org/postr/

By: Michtoblog » Blog Archive » Uploader vos copies d’écran vers Flickr avec Shutter

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 10:31:02 +0000

[...] sur le site de Shutter, j’ai trouvé un tutoriel pour activer cette fonction, via une extension, postr. En voici ma [...]

By: Shutter « Lega99's Blog

Shutter « Lega99's Blog — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:27:56 +0000

[...] makes use of the Postr program to enable uploading to Flickr (see how to set that up). However, the Postr package is broken in older versions of Ubuntu and doesn’t register itself as [...]

By: Romario

Romario — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:20:35 +0000

@Doug Whitfield
You need to check postr’s .desktop file. Usually its path is: /usr/share/applications/postr.desktop
There are several key/value pairs in the file. You need to check if there is a ‘MimeType’ key and the related values. In the latest version of ubuntu the values look like this:

——snip—–
MimeType=image/bmp;image/gif;image/x-fits;image/pcx;image/x-portable-anymap;image/x-portable-bitmap;image/x-portable-graymap;image/x-portable-pixmap;image/x-sgi;image/x-tga;image/x-xbitmap;image/x-xwindowdump;image/tiff;image/jpeg;image/x-psd;image/png;image/x-icon;image/x-xpixmap;image/svg+xml;
——snip—–

As you can see ‘image/png’ is listed here. If there is no such value you need to add it (and execute ‘update-desktop-database’ via terminal with root privileges afterwards).

Shutter uses a gnome library to access those .desktop files and list all applications that are registered to a specific mime-type. There is no way to edit the list manually (usually you should not need it).

The reason why I asked if you are using ubuntu or not: The postr package in older versions of ubuntu was broken (no ‘MimeType’ key provided in the .desktop file).

Regards
Mario

By: Doug Whitfield

Doug Whitfield — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:07:11 +0000

@vadim it’s still pretty clear you do not understand what I’m asking. The instructions for what I am asking about are emphatically not on this page. As I mentioned before, the instructions on this page are for sending pictures to postr, if it is on your list. These instructions are quite good for that! Below I have linked to a screenshot to prove postr does NOT show up in the list. You can see that I uploaded the picture using postr, so it is not a problem with postr.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dawhitfield/4409190745/

So, I will repeat my question for clarity. How do I edit the list of programs to which Shutter will send pictures?

By: Vadim P.

Vadim P. — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:59:47 +0000

I do know the answer and I do know what you’re asking… and I already answered.

Lets make this clear because you don’t seem to get it: follow the instructions, uploading to flickr works. These are complete instructions. You do not need to edit the list, because the list is auto-generated. That is why that part is missing.

So, I do know what I’m talking about, and if it’s not working for you in Fedora, then that’s unfortunate, because the following instructions haven’t been tested. I asked to confirm that you are using the instructions for any of the listed distros here, instead you ask how to edit the list. It’s nice to be smart, but it’s even nicer to help people trying to help you.

By: Doug Whitfield

Doug Whitfield — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:19:56 +0000

@vadim no, the instructions are how to upload if Postr is already on the list. I am asking how to edit the list. Please stop responding to my questions if you don’t know the answers or what I’m asking…or at least ask for clarification. I appreciate your attempts to help, but you aren’t and you are wasting both of our time.

By: Vadim P.

Vadim P. — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:10:45 +0000

The instructions are right here on this page.

Are you doing this in Ubuntu and it’s not working as intended?

By: Doug Whitfield

Doug Whitfield — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:16:21 +0000

um, why doesn’t someone post Ubuntu instructions and I’ll do it on Fedora? Applications are all basically the same. I use both distros and I’ve never had a problem converting instructions except for very deep programs such as GNOME or X. Installation/version # is the only difference and I can handle that either place. I assure you that if someone gave Ubuntu instructions for adding things to send to, I could make it happen in Fedora. Probably some conf file. I’ll post if I ever care to figure it out, which I probably won’t.

NOTE: This question has nothing to do with postr. If I wanted to add foo or bar or programX to that list, it would be the same question.

By: Vadim P.

Vadim P. — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:44:07 +0000

Unfortunately it does, every distro does things “their own way” and it’s not feasible to test every single one of them for us to see which way is it on that specific distro. Should the user would like to use it, and finds a way to make it work on that OS, we wouldn’t mind adding the instructions here.

postr is a third-party application and is thus outside of our domain.

By: Doug Whitfield

Doug Whitfield — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:26:42 +0000

@Romario No. I am using Fedora, but should it matter? Shouldn’t there be generic instructions for adding a new application to which you’d like to send files?

By: Romario

Romario — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:05:44 +0000

@Doug Whitfield Are you using ubuntu? Did you download the version mentioned above or installed it via package manager?

By: Doug Whitfield

Doug Whitfield — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:16:28 +0000

I have postr installed, but it doesn’t show up in shutter. Are there instructions on how to make it show up?

By: Shutter, a skitch for linux | Not Geekly Correct

Shutter, a skitch for linux | Not Geekly Correct — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:26:18 +0000

[...] you want to upload your image from Shutter to Flickr, you’ll need to install Postr. Just read Shutter upload to flickr about page to see how easy it [...]