Paul, you might want to try a free Windows program called Sharp Keys for
remapping your keyboard, rather than doing it in VMware. There are a few
advantages when using Sharp Keys.
First, sharp Keys can change more key assignments. If you're using Jaws in your
VM, for example, you might want to be able to use the laptop keyboard layout.
You need a capslock key for that. The real capslock key, as you may have
discovered, doesn't pass through to a virtual machine correctly. You can, for
example, use Sharp Keys to map your right-hand command key to be a capslock.
Second, I don't thik that VMware's keymapping differentiates between left and
right modifiers. I might be wrong about this. Anyway, this is useful. My left
control key is control, but my right control key is the applications key in
Windows.
Lastly, Sharp Keys also works in BootCamp.
Sharp Key's keymap changes work by directly manipulating the Windows keyboard
layout in the registry. This means that the key assignments don't depend on
having Sharp Keys loaded. They'll work everywhere, even at the log in screen.
Bryan
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Paul Erkens
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 9:35 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: vmware fusion command and option keys
Hi list,
When inside windows xp in vmware fusion, the command key is now my windows logo
key, and option acts as alt. I'd rather have this the other way around, so I
looked in vmware preferences. There is a keyboard and mouse screen there, but
it poses a problem.
Once keyboard mappings are enabled, I move right with my voice over cursor and
find a table where I can define the vmware keyboard mappings. I now indeed see
command being mapped to the windows key. To change this, the help file says I
need to double click the item to change. In other words, I need to double click
on the word alt, which is what the mac command key is currently mapped to. To
click on the text, I want to route the mouse over to the voic over cursor,
using VO command f5. This should route the mouse into the voice over cursor.
However, when checking where the mouse is now, it appears not to have moved at
all. To hear on what the mouse cursor is located, you can press VO f5. This
reads the spot where the mouse was, before my routing command.
To summarize: why is it, that I cannot route the mouse pointer into the voice
over cursor, using the intended voice over keystrokes? Anyone?
Paul.
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