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](https://askubuntu.com/a/1410609/8822). — mivk, May 25 '22 at 18:34

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:25

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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

Community

answered Jan 21 '12 at 04:40

Alexandre

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 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

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

score 0 · 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.

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