Shortcut to capture a custom ROI with shutter in Xubuntu

Question

From Greenshot, I'm used to capture custom ROIs (region of interest) ony my screen.

However, there seems no shortcut to do that. In this small tutorial, the author referes to Unity to setup the hotkey ´Shift Ctrl Print´ to do this (though, Ubuntu 13), but I have Xubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

In 18.04, man shutter has:

CAPTURE MODE OPTIONS
    -s, --select=[X,Y,WIDTH,HEIGHT]
            Capture an area of the screen. Providing X,Y,WIDTH,HEIGHT is optional.

In Xubuntu 18.04, to set Control+Shift+PrintScreen as a shortcut to use Shutter to capture an area of interest, open the Whisker Menu, the icon for which is usually located at the left of your panel, click on Settings in the right column, and then on Keyboard in the left column. A window titled Keyboard opens. In there, click on the Application Shortcuts tab near the top and then on the Add button near the lower left (marked in red).

As soon as you click Add, a smaller window, titled Shortcut Command, pops up in which you need to type or paste in the command for which you want to assign a keyboard shortcut. In this case, we'll use shutter -s.

Once you're done entering the command, press the Okay button near the lower right corner.

Now, another window, Command Shortcut, appears.

In this one, you need to simultaneously press Control+Shift+PrintScreen and that will be reflected in the window.

Once you release the keys you pressed, that window disappears, the shortcut is established, and you can see it listed. It is functional immediately.

Answer 2

You can create a custom shortcut by adding a key binding in ubuntu. open up system settings and hit keyboard. shortcuts tab, then hit custom shortcuts. Hit add shortcut, name it, give it the command "shutter –s". hit apply. highlight your new shortcut and double tap in unassigned on the bindings window. press the key you want to be the shortcut.

restart shutter. reboot may be required.