Its easier to use Sharp Keys inside Windows and remap keys that way, rather than using VMware's mapping tools. VMware doesn't do so well with remapping modifier keys, for example. Sharp Keys will remap anything.
Bryan -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sarah Alawami Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 12:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: a vmware question f13 is the eject key on the mac and I want to remap the capsloc key to that one in fusion. On Mar 8, 2010, at 9:28 AM, Esther wrote: > Hello Sarah, > > I'm not running Fusion, but what's happening, at least with the F10 key, is > that you're running into conflicts with the existing key definitions for the > Mac. The F10 key is used for Exposé on the Mac side, and you definitely want > to disable the key definitions, because you're not going to use it, and if > you press these keys you'll think that your computer has frozen up. Read the > archived post for a description of what's happening and how to disable the > Exposé key definitions: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg08197 > .html (What is Exposé, and how to use its assigned keys in Fusion) > > Since I'm on a laptop, my keyboard doesn't include an F13 key, so I'm not > sure what's going on there. > > Cheers, > > Esther > > Sarah Alawami wrote: >> Hello to all. >> >> I am running xp on a vmware setup and i cannot get the f13 key to map so I >> could use nvda for my screen reader. I tried the map function in the >> preffences but no joy and falso if I have to right click on something ,shift >> f10 causes the vm to freeze. Is there another way aroun this? >> >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
