# How to capture a single window (without the desktop around it)

> One keypress, hover, click: the exact window, title bar included, with everything else excluded — on macOS and Windows.

You don't want the screen. You want *that* window — the app, the document, the modal — clean, with the desktop and its clutter left behind. The difference matters more than it looks: a window capture is a self-contained artifact. It travels to a doc, a ticket, a deck without someone's wallpaper, another app's notification, or the clock in the corner.

## The move

Press `⌘⇧W` on macOS or `Ctrl+Shift+W` on Windows (the default — remap it in **Settings → Shortcuts**).

The screen dims and every window gets a reticle. Move over the one you want and click. That's it:

- The **entire window, including its title bar** is captured.
- Every other window is **excluded** — no desktop bleed, no neighboring app, no notification.
- It keeps the window's **current size and position** in the image, so a full-screen window exports as full-screen and a small one as small.

Two details worth knowing:

- You can capture **windows that are behind other windows**. Hover to the edge that's showing, click, done — no need to raise, resize, or rearrange your desktop first.
- Press **Escape** before you click to back out.

*Hover a window and click: you get that window, title bar and all, and nothing behind it.*

## Why it's better than the region-drag

The classic workaround is to drag a region around a window. That's usually off by a few pixels, and it captures the shadow or clips the title bar depending on your hand. Window capture does what your intent already was: give me the window and the window alone.

And because it's a live capture, not a flattened PNG, you can keep working on it after the click — annotate, spotlight, redact — and it's already saved as an editable `.hypercapture`.

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From https://hypernuclear.com/blog/capture-a-single-window/