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Shutter – Feature-rich Screenshot Tool

Synopsis

shutter [options]

Copyright

Shutter is Copyright (C) by Mario Kemper and Shutter Team

Description

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.

Options

Example 1: shutter -a -p=myprofile –min_at_startup
Example 2: shutter -s=100,100,300,300 -e
Example 3: shutter –window=.*firefox.*
Example 4: shutter –web=http://shutter-project.org/ -e

CAPTURE MODE OPTIONS

-s, –select=[X,Y,WIDTH,HEIGHT]: Capture an area of the screen. Providing X,Y,WIDTH,HEIGHT is optional.
-f, –full: Capture the entire screen.
-w, –window=[NAME_PATTERN]: Select a window to capture. Providing a NAME_PATTERN (Perl-style regex) ist optional.
-a, –active: Capture the current active window.
–section: Capture a section. You will be able to select any child window by moving the mouse over it.
-m, –menu: Capture a menu.
-t, –tooltip: Capture a tooltip.
–web=[URL]: Capture a webpage. Providing an URL ist optional.
-r, –redo: Redo last screenshot.

SETTINGS OPTIONS

-p, –profile=NAME

Load a specific profile on startup.

-o, –output=FILENAME

Specify a filename to save the screenshot to (overwrites any profile-related setting).

Supported image formats: You can save to any popular image format (e.g. jpeg, png, gif, bmp). Additionally it is possible to save to pdf, ps or svg.

Please note: There are several wildcards available, like

 %Y = year

 %m = month

 %d = day

 %T = time

 $w = width

 $h = height

 $name = multi-purpose (e.g. window title)

 $nb_name = like $name but without blanks in resulting strings

 $profile = name of current profile

 $R = random char (e.g. $RRRR = ag4r)

 %NN = counter

The string is interpretted by strftime. See "man strftime" for more examples.

As an example: shutter -f -e -o ‘./%y-%m-%d_$w_$h.png’ would create a file named ’11-10-28_1280_800.png’ in the current directory.

-d, –delay=SECONDS

Wait n seconds before taking a screenshot.

-c, –include_cursor

Include cursor when taking a screenshot.

-C, –remove_cursor

Remove cursor when taking a screenshot.

APPLICATION OPTIONS

-h, –help: Prints a brief help message and exits.
-v, –version: Prints version information.
–debug: Prints a lot of debugging information to STDOUT.
–clear_cache: Clears cache, e.g. installed plugins, at startup.
–min_at_startup: Starts Shutter minimized to tray.
–disable_systray: Disables systray icon.
-e, –exit_after_capture: Exit after the first capture has been made. This is useful when using Shutter in scripts.
-n, –no_session: Do not add the screenshot to the session. This is useful when using Shutter in scripts.

Bug Reports

If you find a bug in Shutter, you should report it. But first, you should make sure that it really is a bug, and that it appears in the latest version of Shutter.

The latest version is always available from: https://launchpad.net/shutter

Once you have determined that a bug actually exists, please report it at launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/shutter/+filebug

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