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I included Shutter on my Startup Applications list upon installing the app. For the second time in two days, my laptop would suddenly freeze heavily for a few seconds that I can't even move the mouse pointer immediately. I had checked my system monitory --> processes, and to my surprise Shutter was using a big chunk of my memory 2.1GB out of my 3.8GB total memory so I had to end the app. Kindly note I was not using Shutter at the time of the freeze.

It seems like including it on my startup applications list is a factor in this problem. Is there a way to solve this without having to give it up on startup apps list?

I'm using 12.04 64-bit on my ThinkPad R61i. (if this would help)

onvas
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Since the title of this question is about shutter memory usage, I'll add my 2ยข:

I use shutter heavily. After noticing huge memory usage, like 4GB or more, I tried restarting, but the usage always came back.

Then I noticed that it has the notion of a session -- you may need to periodically click File -> Close All, then restart (e.g. File -> Quit, reopen), to clear up the memory usage.

Maybe this is obvious to some, but the other screencap programs I've used don't have the notion of a persistent session, so this caught me off guard.

Jeff Ward
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You could try starting Shutter with a delay.

  1. Go the the startup applications dialog, choose Shutter and hit Edit.
  2. Put sleep 8s && before the value in the Command field.
  3. Hit Save.

Using ScreenCloud in this example, as I stopped using Shutter

I'm using ScreenCloud in this example because I don't have Shutter in my startup applications.

RobinJ
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