
(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.
