Re: Using PRINT SCREEN button for screenshots? Clipboard?

Paul <[email protected]> Fri, 02 Jul 2021 04:38:25 -0400
Newsgroups alt.computer
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <[email protected]>
David K wrote:
> Is there a way to use the PRINT SCREEN button on the keyboard to make a screenshot that I can then open on the clipboard of various image-editing programs?  I suspect that my PRINT SCREEN button may possibly even be defective!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David K

You can test with osk.exe, which has a PrtScn button.

In my example here, in the graphics tool, you can see my
pasted screenshot catches OSK while PrtScn button is
depressed and highlighted.

https://i.postimg.cc/0yq6pYbj/print-screen-to-gimp-pasted.gif

    Paul