On Jul 4, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> wrote: >> >> On 04.07.2013, at 16:40, Programmingkid wrote: >> >>> We have made a lot of progress in the last month with making Mac OS X run >>> in QEMU. A lot of people are to thank for this milestone. To everyone >>> involved, thank you. >>> >>> There is one thing that we have to figure out. That is the command key >>> issue. This key is a very important on the Macintosh. It is used to send >>> keyboard shortcuts to applications. >>> >>> What I propose is adding a menu item to QEMU's menu called "Map Command key >>> to ALT". This would allow a user to be able to send Macintosh applications >>> command key shortcuts from both a PC and Mac keyboard. >>> >>> I welcome any and all ideas to solve this problem. >> >> This is the wrong mailing list for this. Your proposal would touch non-PPC >> code in QEMU, so this needs to go to qemu-devel. >> >> Keep in mind that the same thing arises with x86 Mac OS X running in QEMU. > > When I VNC into a Mac I find that the "Windows key" becomes the > Command key. And the same probably happens when you plug a non-Apple > USB keyboard into a Mac.
I was thinking about the Windows key. It would be the perfect substitute - if it was available on all keyboards. > > If you are using a keyboard with a "Windows key" then that would be > the most natural option. If you don't have that key then you really > need to map something else... > > Stefan Maybe there should be two menu items: "Map command key to ALT" and "Map command key to Windows key". They would be mutually exclusive of course.
