Default To Pasting Last Copy Instead of List Pop-Up For Copy/Paste?

[A1MB1G]

Is there a way to set VMWare Fusion to not present a list of the recently copied text items but rather simply just paste the last copied item? I've noticed when I copy text on my MacOS and then go to paste it in the VM Windows guest OS, a little pop-up comes up with a list of the 5 most recently copied items. I'd like it to simply default to the last copied item. Any settings that can be adjusted for this?

Thanks

[ColoradoMarmot]

I've never seen that, and not sure where that functionality might actually come from.  It sounds like an addon inside the guest.

[Mikero]

Yah, we don't do that...

[A1MB1G]

Yah, we don't do that..

What does that mean, you don't do that? If I press CMD-C in MacOS and then CMD-V in the guest OS (Windows) in VMWare Fusion, the little dialogue window pops up in the bottom right corner asking me which of the 5 previously copied items do I want to paste. I want to know if there's a way I can just have it default to the most recent one without having to take the extra step to select one of the 5 previously copied items.

[RDPetruska]

What does that mean, you don't do that?

Exactly what he said.  He's the main product development person for Fusion and Workstation.  If he says it's not something VMware does, then I believe him.  Personally, I have never seen such a popup list myself.  It *must* be some 3rd party add-on either in your Windows guest or your Mac host which is retaining a clipboard history.

[wila · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I know what you mean.. I sometimes do the same thing by mistake.

When you press "Command-V" in Windows then what you are actually pressing according to Windows is "Windows key+V" and that is a special Windows 10 feature where it shows you a list of the last 5 items in your clipboard.

In Windows the correct key to paste is "Control+V" and that's when you only get the pasted item you want.

I -think- you can customize your "Command+V" key combo to work as a "Control+V" combo by configuring the guest keyboard (menu -> VMware Fusion -> Preferences -> Keyboard & Mouse -> look at the mappings down there.

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Wil

[A1MB1G]

I -think- you can customize your "Command+V" key combo to work as a "Control+V" combo by configuring the guest keyboard (menu -> VMware Fusion -> Preferences -> Keyboard & Mouse -> look at the mappings down there.

That did the trick - thank you!!

[ColoradoMarmot]

Interesting, didn't know that was a windows feature.

FWIW, that's the default mapping when you build a new VM.  But it does explain why I get the darn windows menu popping up when I try to cmd-something and don't do the -something fast enough.

[wila]

Hi,

It's been there for a few years now I think.

The keyboard mapping list should probably be updated for recent versions of Windows 10.

Like the emoji picker: Control+Command+Space in macOS is Windows key+"." in Windows 10.

There's probably some more mapping suggestions one could propose.

Show desktop comes to mind (F11 on macOS versus Windows+D on Win10)

edit: don't do show desktop, sorry bad idea (it's already mapped to full screen in most browsers)

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Wil