Hi Phil, One of the replies you got to your earlier question about VMWare and capslock key points you to the web pages that describe how you can disable the default Mac keyboard shortcut assignments under VMWare. Jeffrey Shockley wrote: <begin quote> This should help. It covers everything you are asking for. Just saw it yesterday. http://www.themillionweb.net/blog/?p=9 <end quote>
That article, "Mac Virtualization: Making the Caps Lock key work as a JAWS key in VMWare Fusion!", described a solution that was not the way you chose -- it used KeyRemap4Macbook and the PCKeyboardHack instead of Sharp Keys. However, there were two later articles at that web site that described followup tips about configuring keyboard shortcuts under VMWare Fusion, and disabling Mac Host Shortcuts en masse under the VMWare Fusion Preferences. (I think that in earlier versions of VMWare Fusion people simply unchecked definitions for conflicting keyboard shortcuts, such as for Exposé, under the Mac System Preferences, but you can do this from the VMWare Fusion Preferences.) See "VMWare Fusion -- More keyboard tips": http://www.themillionweb.net/blog/?p=17 And for those interested in the remaining article on doing the VMWare setup for JAWS with the KeyRemap4Macbook plus PCKeyboardHack combination, I'll paste in the URL from the "Flint's Geekyness" blog article "Mac Virtualization: More on key remappings, and how to swap the Windows and Alt keys!": http://www.themillionweb.net/blog/?p=12 These posts were written after KeyRemap4Macbook was updated to the new version that configures key remapping options within the app, rather than using the same settings in a separate preference file in System Preferences, as was the case when Eric Caron posted his guide and podcast at the AppleVis site (that Alex mentioned in his reply). You can also remap keys on the Mac side with KeyRemap4Macbook. For example, Cheryl Homiak posted that she set up the Right Command key so that it works as a Command key when pressed by itself, but when pressed in combination with the Return key, it acts as a Control key. This lets her get a set of VO keys on the right side of her keyboard by pressing Right Command+Option+Return, and is handy for use with a laptop or Apple Wireless Keyboard. HTH. Cheers, Esther On 21 Jul 2013, at 07:06, Phil Halton wrote: > Hi Bubbygirl1972 and John, > > I thought of the "turn off VO" solution after sending my request. And, Yes > john, Table layer keystrokes came to mind too. but I still wanted to use > control alt elsewhere. > Obviously, the CommandF5 option is the simplest way to get use of the VO keys > in the VM. > thanks for the answers. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maria And Joe" <bubbygirl1...@gmail.com> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2013 1:24 AM > Subject: Re: VO keys needed in VM > > >> hi. >> the only thing I can think of is that you turn voice over off while in the >> vm. I hope someone else has some other ideas. >> >> Maria, Joe and Karly. >> >> email: bubbygirl1...@gmail.com >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> On 21/07/2013, at 12:09 PM, Phil Halton <philh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> How can I set VMWare to allow Control + Option (alt) to be used in a >>> windows7 VM? It would be nice to have that key combo available for >>> JAWS table reading commands, but the Mac grabs them as VO keys. Any >>> way to get around this? >>> thanks >>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
