Shutter

When we need to capture the screen image in Ubuntu can not be easier. At any time we can do by pressing the [ImprPant] and it will open a dialogue that will allow us to where we want to save or copy to the clipboard for use with another program.

While in many cases will suffice with this, there will be situations where we need more control over the catch. A well-known for its effectiveness in capturing images is Shutter, formerly known as GScrot.

Shutter characteristics

With Shutter can take a snapshot of a specific area of ​​a window, the entire screen or even a website. The catch is you can apply effects, edit areas in it with the drawing tools and then save it locally or upload to an image hosting service like http://ubuntu-pics.de or imageshack.us .

Shutter can take images by specifying a timeout. Shutter can save the images captured with a pattern in the filename, so they can be easily manipulated. For example (image1, image2, ...).

Since we Shutter, copied to clipboard, print, delete and rename pictures taken and generate thumbnails (thumbnails) specifying the percentage.

Installation

To install Shutter, we must first add the repositories to our sources.list Since we will open a terminal as root with gedit , password by:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

and add at the end

# Repositorio Shutter
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/shutter/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/shutter/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main

save, close and return to the terminal. With the following command retrieve and install the PGP key to authenticate the packets.

wget -q http://shutter-project.org/shutter-ppa.key -O- | sudo apt-key add -

and then update the repositories and install with:

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install shutter

And with that we have available the most recent stable version in Applications → Accessories → Shutter. This all works perfectly with Ubuntu 8.10 and other versions exist as repositories for Ubuntu 9.04.

To learn more you can visit its Web Shutter in http://shutter-project.org/