Windows 8 keyboard shortcuts when virtualising OS X

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Published on Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:50:18 GMT Indexed on 2012/06/21 15:16 UTC
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Seriously, I have no idea why this took me so long to actually sort out.

So in Windows 8 you have new keyboard shortcuts for accessing search (Win+Q), charms (Win+C), settings (Win+I), etc. Problem is that some of those collide with standard OS X mapping - for example Win+Q will close down VMware, Win+C will issue copy, etc.

You can add additional mappings into VMware. Use the Preferences panel to do that. Here you can see that I've mapped Win+Shift+C to Win+C. (OK, that assumes you use a Windows keyboard with a Mac, like I do. If you use a Mac keyboard, you're mapping Apple+Shift+C to Win+C.)

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