Well, I am brand new to the Mac OS, having just purchased a Macbook Air. My goal for doing so was that I really think the PC itself is quite reliable and usable for what I want to do. I would like to have a way to use both Mac OS and Windows interchangeably. Obviously, a lot of others have had the same idea.
I first installed Windows 8 in a virtual machine using VMWare Fusion 6, thinking this might be a vial option. Although I was somewhat happy with the performance, I was not happy enough to continue without Bootcamp. However, one of the things I noticed after remapping the caps lock key to act as the VO keys and consequently allowing me to use the laptop keyboard layout in JAWS in the virtual machine, was that I had a strange problem with the keyboard that I'm hoping someone can help me puzzle out. I'm using the latest Macbook Air. When I used caps lock with the keys on the left side of the keyboard, everything worked as expected in the virtual machine. However, when I tried to use the caps lock keys for key combinations on the right side of the keyboard for things like routing the JAWSCursor, reading by word, character, etc, they did not work at all. I used the suggested method detailed on Applevis with KeyRemap4Macbook and PCKeyboardHack to disable the caps lock and reconfigure the VO keys. I have since deleted the virtual machine so can't pinpoint the exact keys that did not work at this point. I decided to go with Bootcamp and now have it installed and successfully working with JAWS. However, in my zeal to experiment, I now have an unactivated version of Windows 8 since I had first installed as a virtual machine and then installed with the same key on the Bootcamp partition. Nevertheless, I am contemplating setting my Bootcamp partition as a virtual machine to have the best of all possibilities, and M hoping someone has encountered this keyboard oddity with a Macbook Air and can advise me how to proceed to get the keys working as they should. I'm sure I will also have lots of questions regarding VO use with the OS X side of things, and I also have some questions about keyboard remapping in Bootcamp/Windows with which I seem to be having trouble and Sharpkeys does not seem to have the answers. But I'll save all those questions for future posts. This is my first meaningful post using Apple Mail. I really like it so far! -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
