She tried . That captured only the active window. Perfect in theory. But her active window was the browser on the left monitor. The screenshot came out as the browser alone—no taskbar, no timestamp, no context. The bug looked adrift, like a floating head.
She pressed .
Marla opened Snipping Tool. Mode: full-screen snip. It still grabbed both monitors, stitching them into one wide, ugly panorama. She tried Snip & Sketch (Windows 11). Same problem. She tried third-party tools: Greenshot, ShareX, Lightshot. They all defaulted to "All Screens" with a hidden checkbox labeled "Just the one you want, silly" that didn't actually exist. how to screen print only one monitor
"Every time," she whispered.
She never told Dave about any of this.
Then she re-enabled the second monitor. Slack came back. Dave's message was still there. The bug was still on the left.
She closed the ticket.
She needed exactly Monitor 1. The whole monitor. As if Monitor 2 didn't exist.