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VMWare Fusion Question

By Joseph Westhouse, 27 March, 2015

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macOS and Mac Apps

I'm the happy owner of a new Macbook Pro, and am successfully getting accustomed to Mac OS X - and let me first say that I'm loving the experience, and am happy that I made the switch. I'm also virtualizing Windows for some Windows-specific game development work I'm doing. I've just hit one little hiccup with my VM, and I'm wondering if someone could help me out.

Using NVDA on my VM, when I try to use Ctrl + left or right arrow to navigate by word, it doesn't work. Something happens - I'm just not sure what - but I think it's on the Mac side, not the Windows side. Anyway, this is putting a bit of a dent in my efficiency with NVDA - any ideas how I can work around this issue? Thanks in advance!

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Disable all mac keys

By Andre Louis

7 years 3 months ago

This happened to me also. Go into the settings for the VM itself, and also for the application, go to the keyboard section and disable as many of the Mac host shortcuts as you can feasibly get away with. I tend to run my VM in full-screen so to get out of it I really have to work at it. I have to first hold down command and control, wait a second or two, do command control F to dismiss full-screen, then command tab away to make sure I'm not in the window. Takes time, but it means if I do let's say, windows Q which translates to Command Q, I'm not going to put the VM to sleep and subsequently quit VMware.
Hope that helps.

I'm incompetent

By Joseph Westhouse

7 years 3 months ago

I'm not quite having success with this, but I'm sure it's my fault. I went to the preferences for VMWare with Command + , then went to Keyboard > Mac Shortcuts and unchecked the checkbox to enable Mac host shortcuts. But as far as I can tell, it didn't have any effect. Is there something else I need to do?

Also, is there any possibility of disabling the other shortcuts that might be problematic, but keeping command + tab active so I can tab away to the Mac side easily?

Thanks for the help - sorry I'm apparently not good at following directions...

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