JEFF, Using mac system prefferences -> keyboard to map mac capslock to left control. Then in windows use sharp keys to map control to capslock.
I use jaws or nvda but it doesn't really matter which. Cheers Bart Kind regards Jeff Bishop <j...@jeffbishop.com> writes: > Sorry, this confused me a bit. So, which screen reader in Windows are you > using? Are you saying that you remapped the capslock key to the control key > in VMWare's keyboard mappings? If so, you then are mapping what to what in > SharpKeys? Are you telling SharpKeys to then map the CapsLock key on the > keyboard to the Insert Key? Sorry for this. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bart Bunting [mailto:b...@bunting.net.au] > Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2013 8:12 PM > To: Jeff Bishop; macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: VMWare Fusion 5 with mapping Capslock to Insert > > This has been discussed quite a lot on the list if you look through the > archives. > > Multiple aproaches are suggested. > > keyremap4mac is meant to support this. I've had it working but found it > flakey. That's just my experience though, yours may vary and there may have > been bug fixes. > > Personally I remap the capslock to control in the mac keyboard prefs and > then use sharpkeys inside windows to remap it to capslock. > > This works perfectly with the only down side being you no longer have a left > control key in windows. I don't value my left control very highly when in > windows so this solution works for me. > > HTH > Bart > Kind regards > > Jeff Bishop <j...@jeffbishop.com> writes: > >> Hello, >> >> Has anyone gotten the capslock key to function as the insert key when >> using VMWare Fusion Version 5.02 with Window-Eyes or JAWS? There is an >> AppleVis article on this but multiple people that I know are having >> difficulties getting that to function after following the steps exactly. >> >> We have also tried mapping using Fusion's keyboard mapping in >> Preferences to make the CapsLock key act as the Insert key. When doing >> this it appears as the capslock function doesn't work (doesn't >> capitalize letters) but the screen reader announces caps on and off. >> >> Any clues here? >> >> Jeff >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > Bart > -- > > > Kind regards > > Bart > Bart -- Kind regards Bart -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
