Snap Spiffy Linux Screenshots with Shutter

“Snapping a quick screenshot is a capability you get out of the
box with most current Linux distributions. Hit the Print Screen
function key, and you should see a dialog box pop up with a capture
of your entire screen. For GNOME users this typically launches
gnome-screenshot while Kde will bring up Ksnapshot. Both tools are
similar in functionality and get the basic job accomplished.

“Shutter brings a full range of functionality to the screen grab
process. Look under the covers, and you’ll find Shutter is written
in Perl and uses Gtk for all graphical functions. That means it
integrates nicely with the GNOME desktop including taking over the
Print Screen button. It will work as a standalone application in
other desktop environments but won’t integrate quite as nicely.

“Defaults

“If you want to make Shutter the default application attached to
the Print Screen key, simply open the Preferences item from the
Edit menu. From there select the Behavior tab and then check the
Gnome-Keybinding boxes for Capture and Capture with selection. You
can choose between selecting the current window and selecting a
region for the default behavior when pressing Alt-Print
Screen.”

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