shutter (1) Linux Manual Page

NAME

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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