getframe_nosteal_fo​cus

Does what getframe does, except it does not put the plotting window in focus.

By printing the plot to a temporary image file, and then reading the image in again, this function gets the plot without stealing the focus from anything else you might want to do with the computer while plotting.

It also avoids the issue of getframe sometimes capturing a window on top of the plotting window you want to capture.

Note that, in contrast to getframe, this does not capture the plot exactly as it looks on the screen, but instead the way it looks when you print it to an image file.