Shutter, according to its website is a feature full screen shot program. As a tech blogger experimenting with GNU/Linux and its derivatives, it offers me a number of handy features. In fact, I have replaced it as my default screen shot tool. When I press Print Screen on my keyboard,shutter pops up and does a nice job.

Installation.

The shutter website hosts a step by step installation tutorial for graphical installation on Ubuntu. If you are oriented towards command line, follow these steps

1) Import the GPG key
$ sudo wget -q http://shutter-project.org/shutter-ppa.key -O- | sudo apt-key add -
2) Add the PPA repository— to /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/shutter/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

( Replace  jaunty with your version of ubuntu)

3) Install shutter      $  sudo apt-get update      $  sudo apt-get install shutter

Features  Shutter offers lot of features for a   blogger. Some of them are,
  • take a screen shot of your complete desktop, a rectangular area or capture a website
  • take screen shot directly or with a specified delay time
  • save the screen shots 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
Making shutter the default screen shot tool on Ubuntu.Assuming that you are using  Genome desktop on ubuntu, you can set  Print Screen and Alt-Print  Screen  can beconfigured  to  launch shutter as below.a) Open shutterb) Select Edit->preferences  from the menuc) Click on behavior tab . See the screen shot below.


d) Enable  Gnome Key binding by ticking the check boxes.

Tags: