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How to screen capture browsers bookmark dropdown menu?

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How to capture a chrome browser bookmark bar dropdown menu showing the icons (favicons) and names of bookmarks within it ?

In my chrome browser I use bookmarks and also bookmark folders that have bookmarks within them.

Like this:

This is about capturing how one of those folders looks that has 8 bookmarks within it looks when the folder is clicked on and shows all the bookmarks inside it. I want to capture how the dropdown looks (mainly to see all the different favicons in my case).
If I use the delay feature and then use the dropdown it simply isn't captured after the time delay and the menu is still open.

More seververely, if I use the mouse and click open the menu first and then proceed to use shift-print screen it actually crashes my desktop environment and now, for example, all windows pane headers show the cross hair but I can't 'escape' in any way. I currently use the keyboard ctrl-alt-delete approach to logout to and back in to fix this. Yuch.

I've tried printscreen window and print by area and the delays but none of this helped. The delays worked but did not then capture the dropdown which I had open when the screenshot took place.

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answered 1 Year ago calronze · Accepted Answer

My preferred tool is called Shutter.

First, you need to install it, as it's not installed by default. It is in some default repositories, but I am not sure where the cutoff is or if it's in the latest releases. Try:

sudo apt install shutter

If that doesn't work, then try this:

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:linuxuprising/shutter

sudo apt update

sudo apt install -y shutter

Once installed, open Shutter. In the lower left, you'll see that you can use a delay. Set the delay to suit your needs, choose to show the cursor or not, and pick your style of screenshot.

In this case, I chose to screenshot 'Desktop' with a 5 second delay and then edited it down:

If you want, you can even edit from within Shutter, though that takes a bit of work. The directions may change, so that link will work for the time being. It's not overly complex.

You can also choose to 'export' your images. You can configure your own FTP site, or use a few online services, both with authentication and without.