- #What is mac option key on windows keyboard how to#
- #What is mac option key on windows keyboard mac os x#
- #What is mac option key on windows keyboard software#
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This opens the File pull-down menu, just like if you clicked on the word with your mouse. Keep holding down the Altkey and press the Fkey.It'll be the first letter for all the commands except T able, because Type got dibs. There will be a letter underlined for each pull-down menu command. Hold down the Altkey, then look in the menu bar.
#What is mac option key on windows keyboard how to#
You won't find this to always be the case between PC and Mac applications, but Adobe apps are the same between platforms down to the keyboard shortcuts.īonus Tip: If you really want to learn how to fly with keyboard shortcuts on the PC, explore how the Windows Altkey interacts with menu and dialog box commands. Ctrl+D pulls up the Placedialog box the same way on your PC that Cmd+D always did on your Mac. The reach for the key is slightly different, but Ctrl+N will open a new file with your PC the exact same way it will with Cmd+Non the Mac. The Mac controlkey has little to no functional equivalent Please e-mail directly if you want.If we're talking about just knowing the equivalent keys for your Adobe Apps: I'm a database and user interface developer and would love to assist and/or test with this. It provides for custom key equivalents for different windowed environments, which I can see has a lot of parallels (no pun intended) with Fusion. Beyond that, I love the Keyboard preference options in the open source Chicken of the VNC application. Microsoft's Mac RDP client handles this quite well, although they don't have the unique challenges of how to handle things in a Unity environment. Add an option to override of Command+Tab in Unity regardless of mappings. Allow for specific mapping of Command to CTRL for the common equivalents (e.g., copy, paste, etc). Allow any Mac key to be mapped to a Windows key equivalent.ģ. (Yes, I know that these can be changed with OS X's Keyboard and Mouse preferences).Ģ. I can't tell you how many times I hit what I think is Alt+H only to accidentally hide the entire VM. Decide whether to allow Fusion menu items while a VM is running. Longer term, I'd really like it if you created a more flexible Keyboard preference GUI that would allow people to implement all of their crazy ideas. If somebody went through the trouble of editing a conf file that should really mean that they know what they are doing and want it! Even though this isn't my preference, it likely should be the default behavior.ģ. Make it optional to re-map Command+C/X/V to it's Windows CTRL equivalents.
#What is mac option key on windows keyboard mac os x#
Trap specifically for Command+Tab in Unity, which I think nearly everyone can agree should invoke the Mac OS X application switcher.Ģ.
#What is mac option key on windows keyboard software#
You really need to make the software flexible to accommodate every user's preference.ġ.
You can't please everyone if you make the program work the way any particular user wants it to work. IMO, just swapping the keys isn't the complete answer\ I'd love to hear how you'd rather it work though. I wish Fusion let me remap keys the same way so that for Fusion, I could "remap my remapped" keys such that Ctrl goes back to the physical Ctrl key and Cmd goes back to the physical Cmd key, and this only when Fusion has the input focus. The big problem with this is that Fusion automatically maps the Windows Ctrl key to the Ctrl key on the Mac and since I've remapped it, the Mac's \*physical* Cmd key becomes the Ctrl key in Windows and now I'm back to the same problem of tripping over every single key combo I might try to do in Windows. This mapping is great because most key combinations in Windows use the Ctrl key and most key combinations in Mac use the Cmd key yet between the two \*physical* machines, it's basically the same for my poor fingers! To make it easier for me to switch back and forth between the two operating systems, I have used the Keyboard and Mouse "Key Mapping" dialog in the Mac's System Preferences to remap the Command (Cmd) key to the Control (Ctrl) key and the Ctrl key to the Cmd key.
#What is mac option key on windows keyboard plus#
My problems with key mappings stem from the fact that I'm a recent switcher to the Mac OS after about 15 years of using a Windows box, plus I have a development job which requires that I work with Windows extensively.