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Martin Hope
J. Doe
Asked: 2018-10-12 22:18:39 +0800 CST
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During my work, I often try out tools of different complexity and develop usage and integration scenarios.

I use Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Sometimes if things get really complicated, I am not always sure how exactly I got to the solution, and for documentation and knowledge sharing purposes I spend additional time to become more aware of a neat and clean way with less messing around, take screenshots and so on.

Then I thought it would be great to have a screen capturing tool to take a picture say every 30 seconds silently in background so that I can:

  • Easily recap my steps and also gotchas
  • If I am lucky, directly use screenshots from this image archive for the documentation.

I thought I would, for example, configure a cronjob for shutter, but while I am already using it, there is an error "you have already shutter instance running". I will try now with scrot.

Any better ideas?

UPDATE: For the Cron managed execution, as this tool can't resolve time intervals less than one minute, here a solution (on of less rated answers in the thread) for every 30 seconds.

* * * * * /bin/bash -l -c "/path/to/executable; sleep 30 ; /path/to/executable"
shutter capture snapshot scrot-command
Martin Hope
SakoDaemon
Asked: 2018-05-16 07:03:18 +0800 CST
  • 9

I have Ubuntu 18.04 (updated from 17.10 where I had the same problem), and when I use it with Wayland, I cannot use any screen capturing/recording apps. For instance, when I try to take a screenshot with Shutter, I get a weird pattern instead of what's actually on my screen: shutter

I know I can just switch to GNOME/Ubuntu on Xorg, but sometimes that's not an option. Is there a fix for this? Or a certain app that works as it should on Wayland?

screenshot wayland shutter 18.04
Martin Hope
user822833
Asked: 2018-04-28 22:12:13 +0800 CST
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I am trying to enable the Edit button in Shutter. I installed the application from Ubuntu Software and are using Ubuntu 18.04.

After taking a screenshot the Edit button is disabled. And when hovering the mouse pointer over the button the text "Goo::Canvas/libgoo-canvas-perl needs to be installed for this feature" is shown.

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I have tried to install the package libgoocanvas2-perl and restarted the computer, but the edit button is still not enabled:

sudo apt install libgoocanvas2-perl

That is the only package I can find.

Anyone that knows how to fix this?

shutter 18.04
Martin Hope
mart
Asked: 2013-02-24 06:08:20 +0800 CST
  • 5

Error message:

WARNING: Net::DBus::GLib is missing --> Ubuntu One support will be disabled!

WARNING: Image::ExifTool is missing --> writing Exif information will be disabled!

Can't locate Pod/Usage.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/share/shutter/resources/modules /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.14.2 /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.14 /usr/share/perl/5.14 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/shutter/resources/modules/Shutter/App/Options.pm line 36.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/shutter/resources/modules/Shutter/App/Options.pm line 36.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/shutter line 151.

How to fix it?

shutter