I use Shutter since long ago as my only screenshot editing tool in UbuntuBuzz website and in other blogs. So far it's excellent, but since Ubuntu 18.10 I cannot use it anymore because no Shutter available in 18.10 onward. Not only that, Shutter in 18.04 is also broken as it could not edit picture, while previous ones could. Fortunately, thanks to LinuxUprising PPA maintainer, there is a Shutter repository available for 18.04 onward we can use for 18.10, 19.04, and 19.10 today. So let's install Shutter and work amazingly as we did usually.

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You will find Shutter on 18.04 cannot edit screenshots. It is because 18.04 does not have the specific libgoo-canvas-perl package anymore. Shutter needs it, but your version of Ubuntu does not have it, so you need to download and install manually those packages from 17.10. The rest of this article explains the steps to do it so finally you can edit screenshots with Shutter on 18.04.

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Do you find your Shutter Screenshot Tool not showing at system tray, and it quits when you close the window? If that so, then perhaps you missed a package when installing Shutter. Just install the missing package and it's done:

sudo apt-get install libgtk2-appindicator-perl

Bonus: if you want to install Shutter with minimal packages download, while having the image editing and tray icon features, just run following command:

sudo apt-get install shutter libgoo-canvas-perl libgtk2-appindicator-perl

Have fun taking screenshots! And thanks Mario Kemper for developing Shutter.

Do you expect an internal image editor in LibreOffice such as Microsoft Office's one? Do you want to crop, annotate, adding text, and so on to images in your document? Unfortunately, it is currently impossible. But I found a single trick to do advanced image editing easily from the outside of LibreOffice. The main tool to do this is LibreOffice right-click menu, Edit with External Tool. Then you just need Gwenview and Shutter to complete that. Currently I am writing a book about Linux and this trick helps me so much.  I use it almost in every page in my book. For certain people, maybe this tutorial looks like a mess at the first glance. But trust me, if you use it for long term usage (like me, writing a book), you will find no other way easier than this. Of course until LibreOffice finally has internal advanced image editor someday.

Shutter as External Image Editor for LibreOffice