Chrome fullscreen window screenshot doesn't contain the top part of Chrome UI (URL, bookmark bar)

[alt-tab-macos-bot]

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From: skyline969@icloud.com

Message:

Summary: full-screen app window previews doesn't preview the full/top "header" (where I've got nice Chrome colored header backgrounds to easily distinguish the one of many chrome windows I'm looking for).

Love! your app - using it all the time for at least a 2-3 years now! On latest macOS 15.0 on Mac Studio m1 on single studio display. It's been working wonderfully, never a bug. Congrats on your quality work! But question:

I'm not sure if this is something different (I feel it is) but I use latest Chrome and have different profiles setup where each profile has a different color theme to help me easily visually distinguish types work. I often have say 4-5 chrome windows and many full screen.

When in alt-tab, the window preview shows the actual content window within each Chrome full-screen but seems to (more recently??) exclude the Chrome tabs, URL bar & bookmark bars where these have different colors. It was super easy to find the correct full screen chrome window by that color previously. It does preview correctly with the color when not in full screen mode.

Chrome has View.. 'Always Show Bookmarks Bar' and 'Show Toolbar in Full Screen' enabled.

When I tried in full-screen Safari, it also shows just the content window, and the URL bar is hidden.

I normally have like 10 spaces open. If I 'double-click' a window to get to fill the screen mode where the menu bar still displays, your window preview does show the 'full content' of the window including the chrome tabs/address/bookmark bar in the profile color so this works as a workaround.

Just wondering the expected behaviour. Email me if you want some screenshots.

[lwouis]

Hi,

I tried and was able to reproduce. Indeed, when Chrome is fullscreen, it seems to separate its top part and the contents of the tab into 2 pieces. The bottom piece, content of the tab, is captured by AltTab. The top part, with the URL bar and bookmarks, is not.

I think it's the nature of macOS fullscreen apps to split like this. You can tell it's a bit weird if you mouse hover the top of the fullscreen window. You'll see the top part move and you can tell it's made of 2 parts instead of being 1 solid window.

I'll keep this ticket open as we may be able to take 2 screenshots of the 2 parts, and combine them to have the full picture. We'll need to look into that.

Thank you