Shutter: the new gScrot
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In a previous post, I was praising gScrot as one of the best option to take screenshots. Well, it got better and it also got "reborn" as Shutter.
If you are running ubuntu, add the following lines to your sources.list (/etc/apt/sources.list)deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/shutter/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/shutter/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
Add the PPA gpg keywget -q http://shutter-project.org/shutter-ppa.key -O- | sudo apt-key add -
Perform an update of apt:sudo apt-get update
and proceed to install Shutter:sudo apt-get install shutter
Source: http://www.ghacks.net/2009/08/21/take-screenshots-with-shutter/