Hi,
I haven’t tried this with Capslock yet but since my end goal was to control a Windows screen reader, did want to mention one discovery. In VMWare Fusion, I used the key mappings feature to remap one of the function keys on my Mac to the Insert key. So now I can press that key and the appropriate Windows screen reader key with success. I didn’t have to jump through other hoops here. Kelly From: kelly ford <ke...@kellford.com> Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2019 11:48 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Capslock and VMWare Fusion Hi, Thank you for the detailed replies here. This all mirrors what I thought I would have to do but I was hoping something might have changed. I will try this all. In the short term, I am using a bluetooth keyboard with a numeric keypad and issuing the Windows screen reader commands from there is working well. Beyond that, Fusion is working well to run multiple Windows VMs. Kelly On Oct 19, 2019, at 10:01 AM, 'Andrew Lamanche' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > wrote: Hello Kelly, The problem of the caps key as Jaws key in VMWare Fusion has always been a bit of a problem and you will need to jump through a number of hoops to make it work. The way I had accomplished it some years ago, as long as I can remember is as follows. 1. You need to disable caps lock function on the mac side in system preferences then keyboard, then press the modifier key options button. In the dialog that will appear, you can specify what actions various modifier keys can perform on the mac. These are popup buttons. Caps lock key must be set to no action because Mac OS doesn’t release caps lock actions to windows installations under VMWare Fusion as far as I understand. 2. You need to download a utility for mac called Karabiner Elements from the link below: https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/ This utility once installed will allow you to remap the function caps lock key to act as an insert key. As you know, mac doesn’t have insert key so you need to remap it so that caps lock key is recognized as insert key. Once you install Karabiner Elements, depending on your version of OS, you may have to grant it permissions in system preferences security & privacy, under privacy tab. Also, Karabiner Elements, once installed, will create an icon for itself in menu extra. That’s how you will always find the app and activate it. Its window easily disappears once you command + tab away from it so I thought I’d warn you. In Karabiner Elements you need to again reassign the function of caps lock key to insert key. This is relatively straight forward but you will need to do some exploring. There are basically two popup buttons in a table left column says something like from key, and right column says something like, to key. You need to choose from caps lock and in the right column to insert key. This will be all for Mac OS side. 4. Now once you’ve started Windows in VMWare Fusion, you will need to search via google for a small utility called sharpkeys.exe by Randyrats, if I remember. Download it and install it. Once you launch the sharkkeys.exe application, you will need to again reassign caps lock to insert key and insert key to caps key. This should do it. I can’t be more helpful on all the steps of how you’d do this in sharpkeys as I’m not able to look at it while typing this message but you probably have enough experience to work it out after you’ve explored sharkeys windows. Basically sharkeys will change reassignment of caps lock key and insert key in Windows registry. You will need to restart your Windows for the reassignment to take effect. I don’t know exactly why you need to reassign caps to insert and then again insertt to caps but when I did only the former, it didn’t work. It only worked for me when I did the insert to caps reassignment as well. Of course you need to tell Jaws to use capslock key as Jaws key. Hope this will help, and please anyone chip in if I have made a mistake in the above or omitted anything. Andrew On 18 Oct 2019, at 03:24, kelly ford <ke...@kellford.com <mailto:ke...@kellford.com> > wrote: Hi, I believe I’ve read solutions to get the Capslock key to work on Windows when running under Fusion on the Mac. Could someone remind me what options might exist when doing this on a Macbook Pro so I can control a Windows screen reader without using a full sized keyboard? Thank you for any pointers here. Kelly -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. 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