Well, that’s the kicker.. Sometimes I can command tab back into mavericks and sometimes it doesn’t work.
I’m having a devil of a time with my vmware right now.. nothing is working since I had to redo things. neither my xp machine nor my win 7 one are functional for any real use yet, unfortunately. Sorry.. was just saying what had worked in the past. Cait On Dec 5, 2013, at 10:49 AM, Bill Holton <bill32...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. > If you check the box to ignore Mac commands, how do you then leave VM and > return to Mac OS? Thanks. > > Bill > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Caitlyn furness > Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 2:44 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: VMWare questions > > Hi alex, > I'm going to take a crack at some of your questions. > > For your problem with vo taking over, and also for some of the key strokes > not being recognized, you can either turn off vo while in the virtual > machine or go into the vm prefs and then find the tab called keyboard, I > think. In there, there is a check box which tells the vm to ignore all mac > osx commands. For myself, once I checked that little box, the guest > operating system acted better! > > The volume issue is probably windows volume and you can either turn up your > mac or go into control panel and turn up the volume in the other OS. > > hth, > Caitlyn > > On Nov 25, 2013, at 8:28 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I finally got VMWare Fusion running! I guess I complained enough, because > they called me back within an hour, had me set up a remote access program, > and did everything for me. <grin> I'm still not overly impressed with their > support, but at least they fixed this. >> >> Now, though, I have some questions. This is on a Macbook Air with 4gb of > ram (total, not for the vm only). I will set up Windows on my Mini soon, but > want to iron everything out on the Macbook first since my Mini is my primary > machine. >> >> 1. According to Fusion's preferences, ctrl-cmd should toggle > keyboard/mouse control between Windows and Mac, but that does not always > seem to be the case. Voiceover usually grabs keystrokes, almost randomly at > times, and the caps lock modifier does not work at all. In addition, > keyboard commander keystrokes are grabbed, so windows-b executes my battery > script instead of jumping to the Task Bar. This, of course, means I cannot > reliably control Windows, and cannot access the NVDA menus. >> >> 2. The default behavior for closing Fusion is to suspend open VMs. Is that > okay, or is it recommended that I shut them down instead? >> >> 3. Windows seems quiet relative to OS10. Is there a way to turn it up? It > may well be Windows' volume, I haven't managed to check yet (see #1). >> >> Thank you in advance, and I am sure I will have more questions as time > goes on. As I said, I really want to nail down any possible problems before > trying this out on my main machine. However, I am demoing Windows to a > client tomorrow, using the Macbook, so it would be nice to have better > control over Windows before then. (Yeah, I put this one off, but in my > defense I never expected so much trouble with VMWare). >> >> >> Have a great day, >> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >> mehg...@gmail.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/groups/opt_out. > > -- > 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/groups/opt_out. > > -- > 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/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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