How to install shutter tool to take screenshot in Ubuntu

To install shutter tool to take screenshot in Ubuntu

Shutter is a tool that is used to take screenshot of a specific area or the whole window of a machine. The screenshot will be saved in a image file format like jpeg, png, bmp, ani, ico, fig, tiff etc. Installation of Shutter tool is explained in this article.

Before installing Shutter, update your repositories.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily InRelease
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Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com wily-security InRelease [65.9 kB]
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-backports InRelease             
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily/main Sources                             
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily/restricted Sources                 
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily/universe Sources                        
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily/multiverse Sources                 
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily/main amd64 Packages                
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily/restricted amd64 Packages
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Get:25 http://security.ubuntu.com wily-security/universe i386 Packages [56.2 kB]
Get:26 http://security.ubuntu.com wily-security/multiverse i386 Packages [6,438 B]
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com wily-security/main Translation-en               
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com wily-security/multiverse Translation-en         
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com wily-security/restricted Translation-en         
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com wily-security/universe Translation-en           
Fetched 1,520 kB in 21s (70.4 kB/s)                                            
Reading package lists... Done

Run the following command to install shutter tool.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install shutter -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  imagemagick imagemagick-6.q16 imagemagick-common libappindicator1
  libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common
  libcairo-perl libclass-data-inheritable-perl libcommon-sense-perl
  libcrypt-openssl-bignum-perl libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl libdata-random-perl
  libextutils-depends-perl libextutils-pkgconfig-perl libfftw3-double3
  libfile-which-perl libgd-perl libglade2-0 libglib-perl libgnome2-0
  libgnome2-bin libgnome2-canvas-perl libgnome2-common libgnome2-gconf-perl
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Setting up libgnome2-bin (2.32.1-4ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libgnome2-0:amd64 (2.32.1-4ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libbonoboui2-0:amd64 (2.24.5-3ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libgnomeui-0:amd64 (2.24.5-3) ...
Setting up libgnome2-perl (1.046-1) ...
Setting up shutter (0.92-0.1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.21-0ubuntu4) ...

After installation, you can open the application using “ shutter” command or search it in the Unity Dashboard.

To take snapshot, Click “ selection” .

Then click and drag the area to take screenshot.

Click “ Desktop” to take screenshot of hole Desktop or a window.

Click “ Window” to take snap shot of a selected window.

To edit a screenshot click “ Edit” and then use the available tool to edit the picture and click “ Save”

To view the preferences for shutter tool, Go to Edit and choose “ Preferences”

Here, you can change the preference as per your requirement.
At first the Main tab,

Advanced tab

Actions tab

Image view tab

Behavior tab

Uploads tab

Plugins tab