If you are not using an Apple Keyboard (perhaps you are using a separate USB Keyboard with a MacMini) then there is a possibility that your keyboard won’t register that many keys being pushed at the same time. I’ve found in the past with some USB keyboards, certain 3 or more button key combinations simply do not register. It’s something to do with how the keyboards are built. For instance, on an old USB keyboard I had – if I held down Ctrl and Shift, then the W key simply wouldn’t register (so I couldn’t walk forward while crouched in an old game I used to play). If this is what’s happening, then you either need to try a different keyboard or you might have to settle for capturing the data to a file on your desktop and then dragging and dropping that file into your editor / document.

Hope this helps – let me know if this is still causing headaches!

I need the screen capture to clipboard and that is how I found your article, but it is not working. It doesn’t recognize the ctrl and I’ve tried putting it first as well. It just does the capture to desktop. Please elaborate on how to do that

Thanks