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GabrielM
Contributor
Contributor

CTRL-Clicking not working with RC1

Hello,

Ever since I upgraded to RC1 CTRL-Clicking on buttons no longer works. I cannot explain the behavior but its as if a right-click is sent instead of a left-click, and the CTRL is ignored...

Maybe it has to do with the changes that makes OS X keyboard shortcuts work in RC1?

Any workaround?

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GabrielM
Contributor
Contributor

I found it, there's an option in the preferences to disable this. I should have checked first!

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admin
Immortal
Immortal

we add this option so people who are used to ctrl-click on the mac and getting the second mouse click can use it, the down side of this is that this is not the normal behavior for when you are working in a windows environment since ctrl-click has a different function. As you found though through the preferences menu this can be easily turned off.

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brewster
Enthusiast
Enthusiast

can you tell me where in the prefs in RC 1 to disable this. I do not see it. thanks.

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Pat_Lee
Virtuoso
Virtuoso

Go to the VMware Fusion application menu and select Preferences. In the Keyboard and Mouse section, uncheck "Enable Mac OS Mouse Shortcuts" and quit and relaunch VMware Fusion.

Hope that helps.

Pat

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brewster
Enthusiast
Enthusiast

I did that and rebooted Windows and VMware but still cannot control click icons.

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bgertzfield
Commander
Commander

Perhaps you accidentally disabled keyboard shortcuts instead of mouse shortcuts?

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brewster
Enthusiast
Enthusiast

yes, you are correct, it is fixed now. Thanks!

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GabrielM
Contributor
Contributor

I would really like to use the Mac OS keyboard shortcuts but I've had to disable it because I could not properly use Visual Studio. I always use the CTRL-Space shortcut to display the list of members of an object and the shortcut does not get to Visual Studio.

Would it be possible to have the shortcut sent to Mac OS as well as the VM? Or is it possible to disable some shortcuts in OS X so that VMware sends it to the VM?

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bgertzfield
Commander
Commander

I think Control-Space is the default hotkey for Spotlight when Mac OS X is configured to use Command-Space for language switching.

Quicksilver also defaults to Control-Space. You should check and see if either of these are set up on your system.

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