Re: a horrible frustrating evening in vmware land

2014-12-14 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hello, I, too, had terrible problems remapping my capslock key as a screen reader key in VmWare Fusion. I had to follow instructions given on the list and on applevis.com by Erik Caron a while ago. In order to achieve this, I first had to set my capslock key on the mac side to no action

Re: a horrible frustrating evening in vmware land

2014-12-14 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hello again, Only now, Having posted my message to you, I realise that you run Arch in the VmWare Fusion which I think is a linux system. Maybe you won't need to do more apart from setting capslock key on the mac side to no action, since I understand that Mac doesn't give up capslock key

Re: a horrible frustrating evening in vmware land

2014-12-13 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I'm not running vmware right now but I have in the past. It really isn't that annoying once you get used to it. All new things can be a pain, some more so than others. What did you install for your linux vm? -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas story this year; meet Immanuel (God with us),

Re: a horrible frustrating evening in vmware land

2014-12-13 Thread deedra waters
I installed arch because it was quickest and easier then anything else. Yes it is easier to get used to once you get used to it. I think my problem last night was i was tired and annoyed to begin with. I still need to know why my capslock doesn’t work in the vm though deedra waters

Re: a horrible frustrating evening in vmware land

2014-12-13 Thread Chris Moore
You may want to tweak some of the vmware setting for keyboard and mouse. If you’re running arch with speakup, you may want to consider plugging in an external usb keyboard with a num pad. This would allow you to interact with speakup as you would on a conventional desktop PC. Chris On Dec

Re: a horrible frustrating evening in vmware land

2014-12-13 Thread deedra waters
I was going to use the mac keyboard for both. I dont reqlly want to carry 2 keyboards to portland but i might have to at this point. I didn’t see anything in the vmware settings about anything pertaining to the capslock key so no idea what i’m missing. Speakup has a nice laptop layout perfect

Re: a horrible frustrating evening in vmware land

2014-12-13 Thread Chris Moore
I think it is a problem with spekup not recognizing the caps lock key. Try the external keyboard with a numpad and let us know how it goes. Chris On Dec 13, 2014, at 5:22 PM, deedra waters dee...@the-brannons.com wrote: I was going to use the mac keyboard for both. I dont reqlly want to

RE: a horrible frustrating evening in vmware land

2014-12-13 Thread Scott Erichsen
. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Moore Sent: Sunday, 14 December 2014 11:23 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: a horrible frustrating evening in vmware land I think it is a problem

Re: a horrible frustrating evening in vmware land

2014-12-13 Thread deedra waters
I’ve been using the external keyboard in the vm i just hate carting 2 of the things across oregon.:P deedra waters dee...@the-brannons.com On Dec 13, 2014, at 4:23 PM, Chris Moore chris.w...@gmail.com wrote: I think it is a problem with spekup not recognizing the caps lock key. Try the

a horrible frustrating evening in vmware land

2014-12-12 Thread deedra waters
Well, after realizing /remembering that vmware had a 30 day free trial, i decided to take it and just build a vm with that. I’ll call it the evening from hell, but on the other hand i learned a lot more about how complicated and annoying vmware fusion was but on the other hand i have my linux