[macvoiceover] Re: Running Linux in VMWare Fusion and the caps lock key
- From: Sean Murphy <smur7241@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 12:04:19 +1100
Hi Robin,
what Ricko stated is possibly the work around on the Mac OS side. You could
always investigate how to re-map keys within Gnome/Shell.
The whole issue of being forced to remap keys is a bug with Apple Voice over or
the OS itself. I have spoken to Apple support on this and they pass the problem
back to VMWare. I haven't yet chased this up with VMWare.
But one of these companies have to resolve the issue. When you pass control
into the guess OS. The host OS should not intercept keystrokes. The only
exception to this is when you return control back to the host OS.
VMWare under Windows works exactly like this. But Mac doesn't. So at this point
of time, I believe the issue is a Mac problem and Apple doesn't want to address
it.
Sean
On 21/12/2011, at 6:59 AM, Robin Kipp wrote:
> Hi all!
> Well, I've installed Debian Squeeze on my Mac using VMWare Fusion, and also
> got the Gnome desktop and Orca screenreader. However, as my keyboard doesn't
> have a number pad, I will need the caps lock key to activate Orca specific
> functions. I've tried this, but it somehow seems as if the caps lock key
> won't have any effect on the Linux machine. Instead, the caps lock function
> just gets enabled or disabled on my Mac. Is there anything I can do so my Mac
> will ignore the caps lock presses and just pass them on to the Linux virtual
> machine?
> Thanks!
> Robin>
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