![]() ![]() When I investigated, I discovered that it’s because Chrome creates an invisible window at the top of its stack which needs to be ignored when looking for the active window. A friend recently discovered that the current master version fails to take screenshots of Chrome if it’s the active window. ![]() (The binary quickgrab is in the repo, so you don’t have to compile)Īs an aside, that link is to my fork which fixes Chrome. QuickGrabįortunately, there’s a little open source utility called QuickGrab which solves this. There’s a built-in command line utility called screencapture which requires you to know the Quartz window id of the window you want to capture, so it’s now a multi-step process to just take a screenshot of the currently active window. The built-in way to do this on a Mac is to use shift+cmd+4, then press space and then use your mouse to highlight the window and click.įor a good proportion of the time, I’m not using a mouse, so this doesn’t work great. I find myself needing to take screen captures of the currently active window in OS X reasonably frequently. ![]()
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