Okay, a follow up to my previous instructions. At the point where you need to mouse click the word caps lock in the combo box, There are two things you can do to get past this little glitchy part. First, instead of routing the mouse to the VO cursor with VO command F5, I have found here as in other programs that setting the mouse to follow the vo cursor in VO settings works better than trying to route the cursors in the app . So, before attempting the remap, open VO settings with VO f8, and under navigation, set “mouse to follow VoiceOver cursor”. Now go ahead and do the remap, and when you arrow down to caps lock in the combo box, just click the mouse either with the trackpad or vo shift spacebar, and then uninteract once or twice to get out of the combo box. I just tried this several times and it worked consistently for me.
the other way is to also set VO to announce what is under the mouse in the announcements tab of the verbosity settings of VO settings. Do this in addition to having the mouse track the VO cursor. Then, in the remap combo box, press VO Space on the combo box to open it up and insert will be at the top of the list. Slowly draw your finger down the trackpad and VO will announce each key in the list as you go. When you hear “caps lock” about the fifth key in the list, stop and click the mouse. Now exit the combo box by uninteresting a few times and verify the selections. Again, I tested these two methods out and they worked consistently for me. I am using VMWare V7, but it should work for V6 or V5 too. (I remember doing this same procedure back when I was using V5). good luck > On Dec 15, 2014, at 6:31 PM, Phil Halton <philh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In vmware preferences reached by pressing command + comma, select Keyboard > and mouse from the toolbar, then select the key remappings tab. > Press “add” to create a new key remap. in the first combo box press the > accent key, then vo right arrow over to the next combo box. > Here’s where it gets a little tricky, and you might need a sighted person to > work the mouse. > press VO space to open the combo box and arrow down to caps lock. > You need to mouse click the text of caps lock, but unfortunately, Mouse > routing is not too accurate in the combo box and sometimes it works and > sometimes it doesn’t. When I route the mouse the vo cursor, and then try to > read what’s under the mouse, I get a ding sound and clicking the mouse > actually opens the Apple menu instead of clicking the word caps lock in the > combo box. > If you can get the mouse to click the combo box choice, then uninteract with > the combo box and verify your choices, then ppress “okay” to complete the key > remapping. > If you have problems getting the mouse to click the combo box as I do, get > someone with sight to mouse click the word “caps lock” and that should select > it. now uninteract and press “okay after verifying the choices. > Make sure “enable key mappings” is checked and you are done. > Now, in your windows or whatever OS, when you press the accent key, VMWare > should present a caps lock to the VM’s OS instead. > >> On Dec 14, 2014, at 7:29 PM, Caitlyn Furness <caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Can you please explain how to remap the keys using the within fusion option? >> >> I want to remap the accent key to be the caps lock key.. I tried this, but >> somehow managed to screw up and it didn’t work.. >> thanks! >> Caitlyn >> >>> On Dec 13, 2014, at 3:07 AM, Kliph <kliphzkor...@icloud.com> wrote: >>> >>> YOu gotta use sharp keys, or remap the keys within fusion settings. >>>> On Dec 13, 2014, at 2:19 AM, deedra waters <dee...@the-brannons.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> I need to free up the caps lock key os that i can use the apple keyboard >>>> in the vm rather then juggling 2 keyboards…. Does anyone know why and how >>>> to free up the caps lock key so that vmware fusion will stop interrupting >>>> the keypress >>>> >>>> >>>> deedra waters >>>> dee...@the-brannons.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
