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Hi MX-Team,

I like this fantastic screenshot app but Debian maintainers removed shutter in Buster. In stretch it is included, of course but there is a newer version (0.94.1). Packages libgoo-canvas-perl and gnome-web-photo are recommended to use with this app. Great functions.

http://snapshot.debian.org/package/shutter/0.94-1/

It's in the regular repo

Oh wait.. the NEWER version. Sorry lol

I am playing around with the new MX19 beta and it appears that shutter is not available in the repos. I apologize for wasting your time if I have somehow missed it, but if it is possible to make it work in MX19 I hope the Devs will try to do it. Despite its reputation as dead/undeveloped/buggy whatever, Shutter remains for me far and away the most feature-rich and troublefree screen capture/editor program, and as others have said it is one of the first things I install on every new MX installation.

I am running into a roadblock in installing shutter in the 19beta. I can find and load all the dependencies from the 17/18 repo until I get to installing libgnome2-perl which wants perlapi-5.24.1 At that point i am stumped -- any suggestions would be appreciated.

You might want to install the dependencies from the MX-19 repo instead... or at least the ones that exist.

Then find the delta of what libs aren’t in MX-19. Might be the same scenario as the dockbarx plugin.

I thought Shutter was being worked on again, or at least I saw a newer version, but I might be imagining things too.

In the thread above there is a link to an updated version, but trying to install that immediately fails with an inability to find libgnome2-perl

Looks like the answer for shutter will need to come from HERE: https://www.linuxuprising.com/2018/10/s ... 0-and.html

I think I will be able to live with Hotshots on an interim basis, but I won't give up looking for a way to install Shutter. Therefore if anyone happens to note that the challenge set on the linuxuprising link above to package shutter as a snap or a flatpack or appimage is met by anyone, I hope they will please update this thread. Of course better yet would be the devs here finding a way to incorporate into the repos like with MX18.

Shutter may be without a developer at the moment, but it doesn't look like hotshots has seen any development in years either, and shutter seems IMHO to be significantly superior. As for Ksnip, it does not even have (at least by default) a tray icon? For me that's an essential feature, because I always want to immediately select between copying a region vs copying the full page.

I use Flameshot as an alternative and its great.

https://github.com/lupoDharkael/flameshot

You are aware of the existence of Flameshot?
I've been using this instead of Shotwell for some time and I think it is great.

https://flameshot.js.org/#/

ps: Oops, almost posted at the same moment as my predecessor.

Shutter was my favorite for quite some time; surprised to see that it's no longer available. I've been going with ScreenGrab lately, which I found when I started playing around with LXQt. Nice, lightweight, and in the repos. From apt show screengrab:

Thanks for the suggestions but in comparing flameshot to shutter it looks to me like the editing features on shutter are much more advanced. Actually the editing on hotshots is ok too, but shutter seems to me to be the most advanced.

I still miss Shutter and am posting this in hopes that (1) one day there will be an appimage, flatpack, or snap that allows us to continue to use it in MX19, and (2) if and when that happens, that anyone who sees it available again will post here to let us know that it is available.

The workflow of Shutter is still head and shoulders superior, imho. Looks like per the notes in this thread there is a ppa available for the ubuntu crowd, but for the moment the answer for me is to just keep most of my machines running MX-18.3, where shutter runs flawlessly.

Have you tried Hotshots instead?

If you delve into that PPA, you will get an idea of the large number of other packages that also need to be rebuilt just to get it to run on a newer Ubuntu. Buster might need even more. Its python 2 will be gone completely in the next Debian release, so all that work will be for nothing in a year or two, anyway. We packagers welcome anyone that wants to help with that task!

I liked shutter as well. But ksnip is pretty good. It does bring in quite a few dependencies.