{"id":706,"date":"2023-04-28T07:16:46","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T05:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.chloesoe.ch\/?p=706"},"modified":"2023-12-07T11:23:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T09:23:07","slug":"make-shutter-the-default-screenshot-application-on-linux-mint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chloesoe.ch\/?p=706","title":{"rendered":"Make Shutter the Default Screenshot Application on Linux Mint"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>Install it with <code>sudo apt install shutter<\/code><\/li>\n<li>Make shutter start on login within shutter go to  <em>Edit<\/em> &gt; <em>Preferences<\/em> &gt;<em>Behavior<\/em> and choose &quot;Start Shutter at login&quot; on the top<\/li>\n<li>Create custom shortcuts, open the Keyboard preferences via start menu and add three custom shortcuts:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Shutter Screenshot Select Area<\/strong>: <code>shutter -s<\/code>, shift-ctrl-print<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shutter Screenshot Window<\/strong>: <code>shutter -w<\/code>, ctrl-print<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shutter Fullscreen<\/strong>: <code>shutter -f<\/code>, prin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.chloesoe.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/shutter-shortcut.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.chloesoe.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/shutter-shortcut-300x238.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Edit 2023-12-07<\/h2>\n<p>Shutter has some problems lately when connected to thunderbolt dock. It leads to a black screen. I suspect 4k on my laptop together with x11.<\/p>\n<p>Changed to an alternatvie, <code>flaemshot<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>To use it with printscreen follow <a href=\"https:\/\/flameshot.org\/docs\/guide\/key-bindings\/#on-ubuntu-and-other-gnome-based-distros\">https:\/\/flameshot.org\/docs\/guide\/key-bindings\/#on-ubuntu-and-other-gnome-based-distros<\/a> and use <code>flameshot gui<\/code> as command.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <code>\/usr\/bin\/flameshot --help<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>If it  flickers when taking the screenshot, it could be because of fractional scaling. Happened on a USB3 dock, probably related to <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/flameshot-org\/flameshot\/issues\/564\">https:\/\/github.com\/flameshot-org\/flameshot\/issues\/564<\/a>.<br \/>\nSolved it with changing to 175% instead of 150%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Install it with sudo apt install shutter Make shutter start on login within shutter go to Edit &gt; Preferences &gt;Behavior and choose &quot;Start Shutter at login&quot; on the top Create custom shortcuts, open the Keyboard preferences via start menu and add three custom shortcuts: Shutter Screenshot Select Area: shutter -s, shift-ctrl-print Shutter Screenshot Window: shutter&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.chloesoe.ch\/?p=706\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Make Shutter the Default Screenshot Application on Linux Mint<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chloesoe.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chloesoe.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chloesoe.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chloesoe.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chloesoe.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chloesoe.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":722,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chloesoe.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chloesoe.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chloesoe.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chloesoe.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}