Shutter:Run as service

There is no automatic way to make Shutter run as service by it-self. This is because service applications are different from normal user applications (from programming point of view) and would have to be written differently. But, this doesn't mean that there cannot be any workaround.

Windows tools

Windows Resource Kit provides two utilities that allow you to create a user-defined service for Windows applications. Instrsrv.exe installs and removes system services from Windows NT and Srvany.exe allows any Windows NT application to run as a service.

• How To Create a User-Defined Service
• Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools

Third party tools

There are 3rd party tools exist that can run any application as a service, which will be more intuitive but unfortunately not free, for example: Any2Service, FireDaemon .

Any2Service can be downloaded from here:

• http://www.snapfiles.com/get/any2service.html
• http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/Any2Service.shtml

FireDaemon can be downloaded from here:

• http://www.firedaemon.com/

User notes

You must NOT allow the service to interact with the desktop. If you do allow interaction, Shutter will close after a user logs off, leaving the system running.