Screen Sharing Clipboard Keyboard Shortcuts

Problem: Screen Sharing.app has "Get Clipboard" and "Send Clipboard" under the Edit menu, but they have no keyboard shortcuts. This means every time you want to copy/paste between your Mac and a remote screen, you have to reach for the mouse and click through the menu — tedious and slow when you're doing it frequently.

macOS lets you assign keyboard shortcuts to any app's menu items via defaults write on NSUserKeyEquivalents. No app modification needed.

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Commands

defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add \
  "Get Clipboard" -string "@~c" \
  "Send Clipboard" -string "@~v"

Key symbol mapping: @ = Cmd, ~ = Opt

Result

• Cmd+Opt+C → Edit > Get Clipboard
• Cmd+Opt+V → Edit > Send Clipboard

Requires an app relaunch to take effect. To undo, run:

defaults delete com.apple.ScreenSharing NSUserKeyEquivalents

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