taking screenshot with menu activated using keyboard

Question

Taking a screen shot pressing PrtScr key will not work if I have the application menu activated or a pop-up menu (right-click).

I know it s possible to do that using a delay on the screen shot application, but sometimes it would be a lot better to use a keyboard shortcut to do that.

Does anyone know if it is possible to take those screen shots using PrtScr key (or some other shortcut)?

Using scrot instead of the keyboard shortcut works. See my other answer here. — mivk, May 25 '22 at 18:34

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:25

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After some research, I found out this is a won't fix bug described in Gnome's Bugzilla.

So the only way to do it is use the screen shot tool with a delay, as described before.

Thanks for the help.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:25

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answered Jan 21 '12 at 04:40

Alexandre

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Will this be improved? – Casper May 08 '14 at 08:21
@CasperLi I don't think things will change. It has been reported as won't fix at the GNOME project... :-( – Alexandre May 09 '14 at 14:18
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but it is so inconvenient... – Casper May 09 '14 at 14:19

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 23 '23 at 14:21

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As these answers are quite old and the build in screenshot tool (from gnome) does not have the timeout option anymore, Shutter does the job for me. It comes with an Editor (e.g. blur something) and also supports delay and even special commands to capture a menus.

To replace the standard hotkey (prt sc), see: https://github.com/shutter-project/shutter/issues/631

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 15 '16 at 08:49

There is also delayed screenshot feature in Gimp:

Click "File" -> "Create" -> "Screenshot..."

It will take screenshot of only menu itself if you choose "Take screenshot of a single window" and focus menu.

Need to take screenshot for entire screen or region to capture window with menu open, and then crop.

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 14 '12 at 20:09

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The standard screenshot application gnome-panel-screenshot application supports a --delay argument (amongst others).

For a full list, run at a terminal

gnome-panel-screenshot --help

Edit : D'oh, you already know about that.

You can use the Keyboard settings panel to define custom shortcuts to commands - including arguments.

answered Jan 14 '12 at 20:09

Adrian

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As of Ubuntu 15.04, the command is now gnome-screenshot – ffflabs Aug 06 '15 at 17:41

taking screenshot with menu activated using keyboard

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