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I am in macOS, using an Apple Magic Keyboard, and am RDPing to a Windows machine. Is there a native key or key combo on the Mac side that will send the PrtScrn button press to Windows? Looking at several standard keyboard layouts, it appears that PrtScrn usually sits in the position of F13 on this keyboard, but neither that nor fn+F13 achieved the desired result.

I understand how to screen cap in macOS, and how to screen cap in Windows, even through RDP, but I'm looking for the PrtScrn button itself.

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    Apple doesn't have or use a PrtScrn button. It's a function that has never been in macOS ever. I've always found with Win RDP that unless the client has a method to send this type of 'extra' data, you cannot do it from the keyboard alone.
    – Tetsujin
    Commented Jun 2, 2022 at 19:05
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    You can use the on screen keyboard on the Windows side, or use the Windows snip tool to take screenshots.
    – DavidPostill ♦
    Commented Jun 2, 2022 at 19:55
  • @DavidPostill, I think you're onto the closest solution, the on-screen keyboard in Windows. I mean, I know how to use the various snipping tools, on both sides, so that's not a problem. It's the invocation by PrtScrn I was looking for. Thanks.
    – JMD
    Commented Jun 2, 2022 at 21:47
  • you can also use Windows+Shift+S
    – phuclv
    Commented Jun 3, 2022 at 8:35

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I'm looking for the PrtScrn button itself.

Given that MAC keyboards don't have a PrntScrn key then you will have to use the on screen keyboard on the Windows side of the remote connection if you don't want to use the Snipping Tool.

I have done this when the remote session doesn't recognize the PrntScrn key on the local keyboard.

In this case I found it easier to Use Snipping Tool to capture screenshots. This is a better workflow more me as I often need to copy just part of the screen and sometimes annotate the snip.

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Looking this up for a while, using command+shift+s (equivalent of Win+Shift+S) opens the snipping tool the same way the print key would if you haven't overriden the shortcut with another application.

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