#On mac print screen button full
#On mac print screen button windows

This behaviour can be enabled by going to Snip & Sketch, accessing Settings via the menu and enabling the 'Use the PrtScn button to open screen snipping'.

#On mac print screen button full

This allows the user to take a full screen, specific window, or defined area screenshot and copy it to clipboard.

#On mac print screen button windows

In Windows 10, the Prt Sc key can be configured to open the 'New' function of the Snip & Sketch tool. This behavior is therefore backward compatible with users who learned Print Screen actions under operating systems such as MS-DOS. Since Windows 8, pressing the ⊞ Win key in combination with Prt Sc (and optionally in addition to the Alt key) will save the captured image to disk (the default pictures location). Pressing Prt Sc with both the left Alt key and left ⇧ Shift pressed turns on a high contrast mode (this keyboard shortcut can be turned off by the user). The captured image can then be pasted into an editing program such as a graphics program or even a word processor. In Microsoft Windows, pressing Prt Sc will capture the entire screen, while pressing the Alt key in combination with Prt Sc will capture the currently selected window. Some shells allow modification of the exact behavior using modifier keys such as the control key. Newer-generation operating systems using a graphical interface tend to save a bitmap image of the current screen, or screenshot, to their clipboard or comparable storage area. There is also a Unicode character for print screen, U+2399 ⎙ PRINT SCREEN SYMBOL. When echo is in effect, any conventional text output to the screen will be copied ('echoed') to the printer. Pressing the Ctrl key in combination with Prt Sc turns on and off the 'printer echo' feature. In essence, whatever is currently on the screen when the key is pressed will be printed. Under command-line based operating systems such as MS-DOS, this key causes the contents of the current text mode screen memory buffer to be copied to the standard printer port, usually LPT1.