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Normal keyboard shortcuts for screenshots like Ctrl+Print_Screen do not include the pointer in the image at all.
Special applications like Take Screenshot may offer an effect option to include the pointer in the image but the pointer icon seems always to be saved as an arrow. I.e. even if the screenshot is taken while grabbing a window and the screen is displaying the hand-pointer the saved image nevertheless has the arrow-pointer.
How to take a screenshot with the actual pointer icon?
It is not actually possible change it easily, maybe you can help with this bug report.
(for the curious, check the source code. Currently, relevant line is 134)
Update: The bug was fixed upstream on 2015-01-28, replacing colons with dashes, which helps. But they didn't take the space out unfortunately.
Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program. You can take a screenshot of a specific area, window, your whole screen, or even of a website - apply different effects to it, draw on it to highlight points, and then upload to an image hosting site, all within one window.
You can set the size of default selection in it's Preferences. Go to Edit > Preferences > Advanced and change the value of start with selection size of.
You can get more details about Shutter on it's website.
Best Answer
This is the update version of Screenshot application. Here just check the mark on of include pointer.