Hi Geoff, I can't help you with the keys, but here are a few things you might want to consider. 1. If you want to go with bootcamp, you can call Microsoft to have them transfer your windows license over from your vm to the bootcamp installation. That could solve one of your problemsw.
2. Once you have your bootcamp partition up and running, and let's suppose that you delete your existing virtual machine, only to avoid confusion, then you could import your bootcamp partition into fusion. It will then not become a vm on its own, but you can then indeed run your bootcamp windows installation through fusion as well. So, if you need the bootcamp benefits, like for audio editing where you cannot have latency, you boot windows from bootcamp. Whereas, if you just want to happily switch back and forth between windows and OS10, as long as you do not have critical time tasks, you can also use the same bootcamp installed windows from within fusion. 3. If you are willing to give up capslock and use an insert key instead, remember that you can create a fine insert key from fusion's preferences. I have my accent key mapped to do insert, while I run a virtual machine. In both jaws and NVDA, you can do everything you can do with the capslock key, as long as it is a modifier key for the screenreader. 4. If you are annoyed by constantly falling out of fusion if you hit alt tab in windows, that is configurable in fusion settings under keyboard and mouse. 5. If you would like to swap the alt and the windows logo keys, you can do that in fusion, from preferences, keyboard and mouse. That is: on a windows keyboard, the key to the left of the spacebar is alt, and the one next to that, is the windows key. On a mac, these are swapped around, so that if you were used to true pc windows, this won't feel very comfotable. In bootcamp, I don't know of an easy way to change that, but in fusion, it's easy: keyboard and mouse pref. Hope that helps. Paul. On Oct 8, 2013, at 11:27 PM, Geoff Stephens <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
