Paul - Thanks for the response. I only hope that once I reactivate my Windows installation in Bootcamp, it will also be reactivated under the virtual machine if they are already associated.
I am still considering whether to go with both. Thanks for the suggestion of simply assigning an insert key. On Oct 13, 2013, at 5:57 AM, Paul Erkens <paul.erk...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <geoffsli...@gmail.com> 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. 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