Hi all,

So just upgraded to Linux Mint 19 Tara and am running Shutter version 0.94 but when I go to set a delay before a screenshot is taken it just instantly takes it.

I have set a delay at the bottom right of the tool and for some reason now it lets me take a screenshot but then waits for the delay... whats the point in that??

My objective is to open a pop up menu within a 10 second delay, then shutter goes into screenshot mode and then I take the snap.

Now it is all back to front for me.

I have uninstalled, reinstalled, opened from cmd line, opened as both normal user and root. All still the same.

Anyone else having this issue???

I don't know how you are using Shutter but I've just installed a copy in my Mint VM (I use the simpler mate-screenshot in my main system) and it seems to work ok for me with respect to the timer.

I open Shutter, then Edit->Preferences->Main->Capture->Capture after a delay of 20 seconds, then click on the Tick symbol and close the preferences window.

Then I take a screenshot with File->New->Desktop. I see the counter ticking down from 20 on the lower right hand side of my screen and the screenshot is taken (although the result is currently a completely black image - perhaps to do with being in a VM).

Can you go through these steps and let me know where your experience deviates from mine?

If you can't get Shutter to work (I've not heard of that one), you can take the screenshot with the GIMP (File-->Create-->Screenshot), which allows a delay.

Strangely in my Devuan 5 + XFCE i the delay wont work
in Shutter and in XFCE's native screenshot utilitie.

And it happens that: If a set delay lets say to 5 sec ,
i see immediately the handles to select a region (or a window
in window mode) and after 5 sec i see the selected image in the
utility!.
I also tried :
$ gnome-screenshot -a -d 5
and the GUI gnome-screenshot again the same . The delay
is used AFTER the shot has been taken.

A correction.
Delay works. But after a region has been selected.
But in flameshot (QT based)in command line(strangely it has no gui delay option) delay works as i always remember it working:
Delay time counts and THEN you select a region.





Distro: Devuan GNU/Linux 5 (daedalus/ceres)
Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0
Kernel: 5.15.0-3-amd64 x86_64
server: X.Org 1.20.14