Recommendations for a simple screenshot annotation tool?

Question

I am looking for a simple screenshot annotation tool with the following features:

http://askubuntu.com/a/6570/158442? – muru Apr 09 '16 at 08:28 — muru, Apr 09 '16 at 08:28
Dear @muru, Shutter is a great solution. Thank you! – orschiro Apr 09 '16 at 16:09 — orschiro, Apr 09 '16 at 16:09

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 09 '16 at 10:59

You could do worse than to use the screen capture tool scrot and open the resulting screenshot directly in gimp:

scrot -q 100 -e 'gimp $f'

You can set this particular commandline to a key, I illustrate here mapped to F6:

Or you can simply run it from the commandline with the glorious addition of a timer and delay:

scrot -d 10 -c -q 100 -e 'gimp $f'

The gimp should make short work of your image manipulation needs and there are many other scrot settings which you can tailor to your needs...

Dear @andrew.46, I appreciate your reply but GIMP is a too heavy tool for my taste. — orschiro, Apr 09 '16 at 16:09

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