Capture maximized window with shadow

[lopoz]

Hi,

I came across some strange Grab behavior today while trying to capture a maximized window using the shortcut key for a window grab.

While having the window I wanted to grab active, I pressed Cmd + Shift + 4 to get the box selection grab, then pressed Space to get the Window capture tool. I clicked the active window and this is what came out:



As you can see, the right side of the window is missing..

Can someone reproduce this? Or is it just on my end?

 

[DoFoT9]

what on earth!? apple + shift +4 + space bar should capture the whole window. ive never come across this!

 

[lopoz]

what on earth!? apple + shift +4 + space bar should capture the whole window. ive never come across this!

It works properly when the window isn't maximized.. Do you have your window maximized to cover your whole desktop?

 

[DoFoT9]

It works properly when the window isn't maximized.. Do you have your window maximized to cover your whole desktop?

 

[lopoz]

Ah, good to know the problem is not just on my side

Annoying bug though.. Better report back to Apple

 

[lopoz]

Here's a template if you want to report the bug to Apple:

Link to report page

Window Grab doesn't completely grab maximized window

Dear Sir/Madam,

Grabbing the contents of a window using the Grab utility doesn't work as expected. The right side of the window isn't being captured.

Steps to reproduce the bug:
1. Maximize window to be captured to cover the desktop
2. Press Cmd + Shift + 4 to get the box selection grab, then press Spacebar to get the Window capture tool
3. Click the active (maximized) window

Result:
The right hand side of the window is missing from the window grab.
Here is a screenshot to illustrate what's wrong: http://img230.imagevenue.com/aAfkjf..._Screenshot2010_03_18at12.33.42_122_129lo.jpg

As you can see, only part of the active window is being captured.

Kind regards,
***Your name here***

 

[AdamA9]

I believe the correct valediction is yours faithfully, but meh.

 

[DoFoT9]

consider it sent

i want to have this fixed!

 

[lopoz]

Not fixed in 10.6.3, but I guess they're not THAT fast

 

[DoFoT9]

Not fixed in 10.6.3, but I guess they're not THAT fast

yea we probably submitted after they had finished finalising the update

maybe in 10.6.4.!

 

[svenwillmann]

try this solution

the effect appears with the introduction of the “new feature” to capture a shadow around the whole-window screenshot (ie Command-Shift-4, Space)

If you turn of the shadow to be captured you will get the whole window.
Basically your screen shot will cut off the shadow space of the window you would like to capture of the window if your capture shadow is turned on (if this makes sense to you).

To solve the problem, simply turn of the feature to capture the shadow around your whole-window screenshot.

Fire up terminal and enter:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool true

Restart your UIServer by entering the following in terminal:
killall SystemUIServer

That should solve the problem

After that, obviously you will not have the shadow around your window in the screen shot anymore!

 

[svenwillmann]

by the way, this is especially helpful if you set the screen shot format to something else (e.g. gif) in order to reduce the file size.
Because then the shadow doesn’t look like a shadow.

example:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type gif