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Shutter - Feature-rich Screenshot Tool

Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program. You can take a screenshot of a specific area, window, your whole screen, or even of a website – apply different effects to it, draw on it to highlight points, and then upload to an image hosting site, all within one window.

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Snipping tool in ubuntu 16.04

I searched for any type of snipping tool in ubuntu. I found Shutter & installed it. But my Ubuntu launcher didn't show its icon. When I launch Shutter from terminal, my PC run slow & terminal showed hundreds of warnings. Is there any other snipping…
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How to enable the Edit button in Shutter?

I am trying to enable the Edit button in Shutter. I installed the application from Ubuntu Software and are using Ubuntu 18.04. After taking a screenshot the Edit button is disabled. And when hovering the mouse pointer over the button the text…
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How to make Shutter as the default screenshot tool?

I have shutter 0.90 on my Ubuntu 12.04 machine (installed via PPA). I would like to use it as my default screenshot tool with the Print shortcut key. But I can't find the option in Shutter. It should be in Preferences -> Keyboard, but I don't see…
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How to change the keyboard shortcut to take screenshots with Shutter?

I use Shutter for screenshots. When I press Print Screen or Shift + Ctrl + Z, a popup appears that a screenshot is going to be made in 2 seconds. After that Shutter opens, and I can then crop the image directly to the relevant part, which is for me…
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How can I take a screenshot from a window, with customizable margins

I need a tool that will do the following: selecting a window, will make a screenshot of that window with a x padding, like in the following image: So, in most of the cases x will be equal with y, but sometimes I need different distances. How to…
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Shutter very slow and laggy?

Shutter is very slow and laggy, and I'm not sure why. I've tried to change settings to "Do not save file automatically" and "Do not copy anything to clipboard" but it's still incredibly slow. I have it bound to my PrtScr key, and when I press it, my…
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Screenshot feature of Shutter doesn't work after upgrading to Ubuntu 17.10

After the last upgrade to Ubuntu 17.10, the screenshot feature of Shutter doesn't work properly any more. When I press Selection, or Desktop to get a screenshot of the entire desktop, the image gets filled with large Shutter icons, like this: I…
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Upload images to imgur account from shutter

I use shutter for screenshots, it has an option to upload to imgur as a guest, is it possible to upload to my account instead?
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Application Indicator for Shutter

Looking through the list of application indicators, I see screenshots that appear to have a Shutter indicator. Where can I find & install this?
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Cannot use screen capture apps in Wayland

I have Ubuntu 18.04 (updated from 17.10 where I had the same problem), and when I use it with Wayland, I cannot use any screen capturing/recording apps. For instance, when I try to take a screenshot with Shutter, I get a weird pattern instead of…
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Shutter snapshot tool to copy image to clipboard

I'm a new Ubuntu Desktop user and looking for snapshot tool to use as alternative to Greenshot in Windows. I found Shutter is the one. Though I want to copy the image in Shutter built-in editor to clipboard so that I can paste it quickly to my…
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How do I disable Shutter plugins?

Shutter is a nice software but it takes a while to load. I observed that initially it loads some plugins (eg:upload-plugin). Is there a way to disable these plugins so that shutter loads quickly? please illustrate how to do this.
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Ubuntu 21.04 shutter did not work without X11 server

I installed shutter 0.97 version sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linuxuprising/shutter sudo apt-get update sudo apt install shutter and sudo apt install gnome-web-photo but faced with error when try to screen selection can't take screenshots without…
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Shutter is using big memory

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…
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How do I replace xfce4-screenshooter in Xubuntu?

When I press Prnt Scrn in Xubuntu, xfce4-screenshooter starts. I also installed shutter which has many more options to customize and to compress the screenshot into a smaller, better emailable size (see how do I get maximal compressed…
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