i3wm, unable to take screenshot when context menu is open

g-virus · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Aug 2017 Posts: 111

Hello!

I'm using i3-gaps and I have a problem with shortcuts that don't work when a context menu is open. It's a typical situation when you want to take a screenshot of a menu of an application or something, but for some reason on my i3wm both shortcuts Shift+PrintScreen and PrintScreen don't work (I suppose every shortcut doesn't work until the context menu is open). Interesting fact is the Brave browser context menus don't block the shortcuts while all others do (I've tried Qt and GTK apps). Did someone have the same issue?
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figueroa · Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 2:58 am Post subject:

Almost certainly the menu is stealing focus for your keystrokes. Maybe you can run XFCE's screenshot. It let's you set a delay before shooting, giving you time to open your context menu, theoretically. GIMP also.
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Banana · Veteran Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1391 Location: Germany

there is also https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/x11-misc/shutter which works for me very well and can handle those context menues and overlays
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g-virus · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Aug 2017 Posts: 111

Banana · Veteran Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1391 Location: Germany

did you try to make a screenshot but with a delay? This way you do not trigger it with a keystroke
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Hund · Apprentice Joined: 18 Jul 2016 Posts: 218 Location: Sweden

If you use scrot you can just set a delay: "scrot -cd <N>".
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g-virus · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Aug 2017 Posts: 111

No, I didn't try to use it with delay because in that way it will work of course. But when you take screenshots of apps you rather open a context menu, point a cursor on some item and then press hotkey and not vice-versa, right?
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figueroa · Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2021 3:25 pm Post subject:

The choice, then, is to use a WM where an open context menu doesn't steal keystroke focus. Don't know if that exists.
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figueroa · Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2021 5:13 pm Post subject:

Although I don't use Gnome (I'm running OpenBox with PCManFM and LXPanel), I do use a couple of low-impact Gnome utilities. I've just run across and installed gnome-screenshot. It's very small (350K) very low dependencies (no new ones required for me), and runs well from both command-line and a sufficient GUI accessory. For me, this replaces the xfce4-screenshooter and its dependencies.
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i7-2600 @ 3.40GHz; 16 gb; Radeon HD 7570
amd64/23.0/split-usr/desktop (stable), OpenRC, -systemd -pulseaudio -uefi