Shutter: The Ultimate Linux Screenshot Program

Shutter is a free, open-source, and feature-rich screenshot tool for GNU/Linux distributions. I use this tool frequently when I am creating resources for this site or for our youtube channel and it has not yet let me down.

Shutter
This tool is a GTK+ 2.0 screenshot application written in perl. You can take a screenshot of a specific area, window, your whole screen, or even of a website. You can apply different effects to it, draw on it to highlight points, and then upload to an image hosting site, all within one window.

How do I install shutter?

Simply type the following apt-get command to install shutter under Debian / Ubuntu Linux based system:
$ sudo apt-get install shutter
RHEL / CentOS / Fedora Linux user type the following command (turn on Fedora EPEL repo):
# yum install shutter

How do I start shutter?

Fig.01: Captured a cascading menu using shutter

Visit the following menu options:

Applications > Accessories > Shutter

Alternately, you can type the shutter command. Just starts shutter and takes a full screen screenshot of desktop directly:
shutter --full

You can start shutter in window selection mode to capture specific window (you need to select a window with your mouse):
shutter --window

Finally, you can start shutter in selection mode so that you can capture specific part of the screen:
shutter --selection

By default shutter will minimize and stay at systray as an icon. You can disable systray icon with the following option:
shutter --disable_systray shutter --disable_systray --full

To see information about all other available options, run:
shutter --help