The Shutter Imgur.com upload plugin stopped working recently, so I've been looking for alternatives and I stumbled upon Imgur-Screenshot, a bash script that can take screenshots and upload them to Imgur.

Glippy is a clipboard manager for the Gnome desktop. Some of its main features are: Ubuntu appindicator support, it can store test from both keyboard and mouse (select some text using your mouse and it will be available in Glippy), you can easily access the keboard using a hotkey (CTRL + SUPER + C by default, but it can be customized).

Based on the Nautilus Actions script and the bash script (see the end of the post) in THIS post, I have created 2 very simple scripts to take a screenshot of your desktop and upload it to Imgur.com, displaying the links (direct link, thumbnail, delete link, etc.).

I made 2 scripts because I wanted a command line and a visual tool for doing this. The scripts were made for my own use, but decided to share them with you.

Here is a video with the "visual" script in action:

cozzyd (Multumesc, Cosmin) Reddit user wrote a simple Nautilus Actions script to upload images to Imgur.com via right click.

To use it, make sure you have nautilus-actions, zenity and curl installed. In Ubuntu, install them using this command:

sudo apt-get install nautilus-actions zenity curl

Then, to set up the script, follow these steps: