wow! I'm never upgrading to mavericks! On Dec 5, 2013, at 11:00 AM, Caitlyn and Maggie <caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, that’s the kicker.. Sometimes I can command tab back into mavericks and > sometimes it doesn’t work. > > I’m having a devil of a time with my vmware right now.. nothing is working > since I had to redo things. neither my xp machine nor my win 7 one are > functional for any real use yet, unfortunately. > Sorry.. was just saying what had worked in the past. > Cait > > On Dec 5, 2013, at 10:49 AM, Bill Holton <bill32...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi. >> If you check the box to ignore Mac commands, how do you then leave VM and >> return to Mac OS? Thanks. >> >> Bill >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Caitlyn furness >> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 2:44 PM >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: VMWare questions >> >> Hi alex, >> I'm going to take a crack at some of your questions. >> >> For your problem with vo taking over, and also for some of the key strokes >> not being recognized, you can either turn off vo while in the virtual >> machine or go into the vm prefs and then find the tab called keyboard, I >> think. In there, there is a check box which tells the vm to ignore all mac >> osx commands. For myself, once I checked that little box, the guest >> operating system acted better! >> >> The volume issue is probably windows volume and you can either turn up your >> mac or go into control panel and turn up the volume in the other OS. >> >> hth, >> Caitlyn >> >> On Nov 25, 2013, at 8:28 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> I finally got VMWare Fusion running! I guess I complained enough, because >> they called me back within an hour, had me set up a remote access program, >> and did everything for me. <grin> I'm still not overly impressed with their >> support, but at least they fixed this. >>> >>> Now, though, I have some questions. This is on a Macbook Air with 4gb of >> ram (total, not for the vm only). I will set up Windows on my Mini soon, but >> want to iron everything out on the Macbook first since my Mini is my primary >> machine. >>> >>> 1. According to Fusion's preferences, ctrl-cmd should toggle >> keyboard/mouse control between Windows and Mac, but that does not always >> seem to be the case. Voiceover usually grabs keystrokes, almost randomly at >> times, and the caps lock modifier does not work at all. In addition, >> keyboard commander keystrokes are grabbed, so windows-b executes my battery >> script instead of jumping to the Task Bar. This, of course, means I cannot >> reliably control Windows, and cannot access the NVDA menus. >>> >>> 2. The default behavior for closing Fusion is to suspend open VMs. Is that >> okay, or is it recommended that I shut them down instead? >>> >>> 3. Windows seems quiet relative to OS10. Is there a way to turn it up? It >> may well be Windows' volume, I haven't managed to check yet (see #1). >>> >>> Thank you in advance, and I am sure I will have more questions as time >> goes on. As I said, I really want to nail down any possible problems before >> trying this out on my main machine. However, I am demoing Windows to a >> client tomorrow, using the Macbook, so it would be nice to have better >> control over Windows before then. (Yeah, I put this one off, but in my >> defense I never expected so much trouble with VMWare). >>> >>> >>> Have a great day, >>> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >>> mehg...@gmail.com >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > 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. 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