How to enable "Attach Screenshot" on Linux Machine
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When Attaching a Screenshot in JIRA, a user must go to More Actions and select the the Attach Screenshot link. However, on a Linux machine, this feature is not available.
Note: It is possible to enable this feature as per the below though this feature is not tested on Linux distributions and in hand is not supported by Atlassian Support
1. Enable the screenshot applet on Linux
To enable the "Attach Screenshot" feature on your JIRA instance, add the following line on the jira-config.properties file, which is located on the <JIRA_HOME> directory.
jira-config.properties
jira.screenshotapplet.linux.enabled=trueIn a new JIRA installations, jira-config.properties file may not initially exist and if so, you will need to create it manually. Create the jira-config.properties file inside <JIRA_HOME> folder.
2. Restart your JIRA instance
Once you have modified the jira-config.properties file, restart your JIRA instance for the changes to take effect.
Please note that this feature may not work on all Linux Distributions.
Last modified on Aug 10, 2013
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