Very good. For a goof I just tried parallels with their trial option. Talk about less than useless. Completely and utterly inaccessible. I was hopeful that over all this time things had improved but no such luck.
> On Nov 17, 2016, at 5:07 PM, E.T. <ancient.ali...@icloud.com> wrote: > > Scott, > I do not remember what version of Fusion I started with. I do not think the > force grab function was brought over to version 8. It used to be on the > Virtual Machine menu. I looked at version 8 release notes and found nothing. > > If we can find out what replaces the force grab, we might have solved it. > > From E.T.'s Keyboard... > Without H2O there is no life! > ancient.ali...@icloud.com > > On 11/17/2016 1:06 PM, Scott Granados wrote: >> It does and I’ll do some googling on the command g feature, maybe I can shed >> some light on this by playing with it more myself. >> >> Thanks as always ET. >> >> And good comments from Janina this might be worth some communication with >> VMWare once I’m more confident it’s not the user behind my keyboard that’s >> the problem.:) >> >>> On Nov 17, 2016, at 4:03 PM, E.T. <ancient.ali...@icloud.com> wrote: >>> >>> Scott, >>> Ok here is what I think would be worth studying. I was just in my VM and >>> my frustration level is still a bit high so will not run it again for now. >>> >>> Seems Command-G was on the menu when I first started using VMware. Its no >>> longer there yet it seems to still work. I want to play with this a lot >>> more though and confirm some suspicions. Its supposed to grab the heyboard >>> away from the Mac. >>> >>> This may not work any more as lately I have found just pressing a wrong >>> key or too long throws things around and I have trouble getting focused on >>> the VM again. >>> >>> So perhaps Command-G really is not used any more. When I run the VM in >>> full screen I am not interested in switching between Mac and Windows. Yet I >>> want access to the menu bar. I have disabled the VM toolbar and mini bar. I >>> think I have conflicts here though by inadvertently pressing Mac keystrokes. >>> >>> Did this make sense? >>> >>> From E.T.'s Keyboard... >>> Without H2O there is no life! >>> ancient.ali...@icloud.com >>> >>> On 11/17/2016 12:42 PM, Scott Granados wrote: >>>> I misspoke I meant command G not control G. Command G doesn’t seem to do >>>> anything for me, maybe I’m using it at the wrong time, not sure. >>>> >>>>> On Nov 17, 2016, at 2:01 PM, E.T. <ancient.ali...@icloud.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Scott, >>>>> I do not see that command in my list of shortcuts. When I load my VM and >>>>> wait long enough to let Windows fully load. I press Cmd-G to grab the >>>>> keyboard and then Cmd-Ctrl-F to enter full screen. >>>>> >>>>> From E.T.'s Keyboard... >>>>> Without H2O there is no life! >>>>> ancient.ali...@icloud.com >>>>> >>>>> On 11/17/2016 10:45 AM, Scott Granados wrote: >>>>>> Hi, I wanted to confirm this. >>>>>> >>>>>> When I run fusion and boot a VM, is it control-G that is supposed to >>>>>> allow me to gain access to the vm interface? I just get a bonk sound >>>>>> when I press this combo and nothing happens. In most cases, in full >>>>>> screen mode I can’t enter the VM and in zoom reduced mode I can but by >>>>>> tabbing past the snapshots button I will drop in to the vm. 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