How to re-enable Shutter Screenshot edit option in Ubuntu 18.04?

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As days go by several of the errors have begun to come to light that the guys from Canonical still had to correct in this new release of Ubuntu 18.04 and since I don't know if they missed the integration of being able to install the Gnome Shell extensions, the disabled touchpad button among others.

Well, this time if not You have come to realize a small error that Shutter Screenshot has, if that application that is used for the screenshots of the system with which it allows us a quick edition of these.

In Ubuntu 18.04 Shutter Screenshot does not have the edit button enabled, which you can notice when you open the tool when taking a screenshot.

And not only that, but Also, the applet indicator on the top panel is missing, this prevents us from working its image editing functions. This means that functions like blurring text, cropping the image, add lines, arrows, text, etc., they don't work by default.

This error is due to the fact that a library was not included in the system, as this is not included within the official Ubuntu 18.04 repositories.

The bookstore is libgoo-canvas-perl, but don't worry we can make use of the one available in the repositories of the previous version "Ubuntu 17.10".

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How to fix the problem with Shutter Screenshot?

They can download the deb package manually from a page Also be sure to download its dependencies as well.

Download libgoocanvas-common link is this and also to libgoocanvas3 link is this, and to libgoo-canvas-perl link is this.

Once the downloads are done, you can use the package manager of your choice to install the downloaded files.

Or if you prefer, you can use a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) to install the packages, they position themselves on the folder where the files were downloaded and execute:

sudo dpkg -i libgoocanvas*deb

sudo apt-get -f install

Then we install libgoo-canvas-perl

sudo dpkg -i libgoo-canvas-perl*.deb

sudo apt-get -f install

Or if you prefer you can run the commands below, which will download libgoo-canvas-perl and its dependencies what we will do is save them in your home directory and install these deb files.

For Ubuntu 32-bit derivatives:

mkdir ~/libgoo-canvas-perl && cd ~/libgoo-canvas-perl

wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/libg/libgoo-canvas-perl/libgoo-canvas-perl_0.06-2ubuntu3_i386.deb && wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/libe/libextutils-depends-perl/libextutils-depends-perl_0.405-1_all.deb && wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/libe/libextutils-pkgconfig-perl/libextutils-pkgconfig-perl_1.15-1_all.deb && wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/goocanvas/libgoocanvas3_1.0.0-1_i386.deb && wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/goocanvas/libgoocanvas-common_1.0.0-1_all.deb

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

sudo apt install -f

For Ubuntu and 64-bit derivatives:

mkdir ~/libgoo-canvas-perl && cd ~/libgoo-canvas-perl

wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/libg/libgoo-canvas-perl/libgoo-canvas-perl_0.06-2ubuntu3_amd64.deb && wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/libe/libextutils-depends-perl/libextutils-depends-perl_0.405-1_all.deb && wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/libe/libextutils-pkgconfig-perl/libextutils-pkgconfig-perl_1.15-1_all.deb && wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/goocanvas/libgoocanvas3_1.0.0-1_amd64.deb && wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/goocanvas/libgoocanvas-common_1.0.0-1_all.deb

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

sudo apt install -f

Once they have installed all the required dependencies, you need to restart shutter.

They can do this by opening a terminal and running the following command, to kill all running instances of Shutter.

sudo killall shutter

How to enable the Shutter applet?

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As mentioned earlier, the Shutter prompt applet was not showing up on the system taskbar.

This app indicator it allowed us quick access to all Shutter features Although it is not a required function, it is an excellent access to all its features.

If desean re-enable this applet we must perform the following steps to enable the application flag.

First we must open a terminal and run the following command to install the indicator:

sudo apt install libappindicator-dev

Done this now we are going to proceed to install a Pearl module to our system, for this we execute:

sudo cpan -i Gtk2::AppIndicator

At the end only We must restart Shutter again with the command:

sudo killall shutter

And with that we should already see the applet indicator in the upper panel in Ubuntu 18.04.

As a personal comment that I can add, is that I do not know what happened to the Ubuntu developers, because I do not understand how such basic functions may be presenting problems, even though they possibly focused on other functions forgetting to review the most basic.


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  1.   Charles Rock said

    After trying to install the libraries that you indicate:
    libgoocanvas3_1.0.0-1_amd64.deb
    libgoocanvas-common_1.0.0-1_all.deb
    libgoo-canvas-perl_0.06-2ubuntu3_amd64.deb

    In my case before I had to install the following libraries:
    libextutils-pkgconfig-perl_1.15-1_all.deb
    libextutils-depends-perl_0.405-1_all.deb

    It was the dpkg itself that indicated the lack of these dependencies.

    Thank you very much for your input.

    Maybe we are in too much hurry to jump to the new version, in the end solving these little problems takes too much time that we would save ourselves just waiting a little.

  2.   Tony said

    It worked well for me, thank you.