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#Control alt etc not working on keyboard for mac mac osx
#Control alt etc not working on keyboard for mac mac os
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It should have seen CTRL down, S down, S up, CTRL up as that is the order I pressed the keys. Hence Windows is actually seeing CTRL followed by S, not CTRL-S simultaneously. This means that the CTRL key is being pressed and released before the S key is being pressed. But when I press the S key, I see CTRL key down, CTRL key up, followed by S key down, S key up. CTRL-S), when I press CTRL, nothing happens in Windows.

#Control alt etc not working on keyboard for mac mac os

CTRL, SHIFT, WIN, or ALT keys), they show up on the Mac OS Keyboard Viewer, but do not show up in the Windows VM Event Tester program. In Windows under Parallels, though, I got different results depending on the version of Synergy. In all cases, any key I press on the Win10 Server machine correctly showed up on the Mac OS keyboard Viewer as is expected. I tested with Synergy V1.8.5 and V1.8.8, again Windows 10 as the Synergy server, Mac OS 10.12.6 as the client, running Parallels V13.2.0 with a Windows 7 VM (all latest versions of software at time of writing this). This brings up a keyboard that shows what keys are currently being pressed in Mac OS. Then from the keyboard/emoji icon in the menu bar, select "Show Keyboard Viewer". To enable it, go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> and check "Show keyboard and emoji viewers in menu bar". I also displayed the Mac OS Keyboard Viewer. Basically, it shows what keys have been pressed, in what order, and for how long. The program I used is part of a Thrustmaster product called TARGET (the TARGET Event Tester program), but there are several such programs available. I used a keyboard event tester program in Windows to show me exactly what Windows is receiving in Parallels. Unfortunately, this problem makes Synergy completely useless to me.Īfter some more investigation, I found the following on this issue. Under Synergy v1.8.5, this does not work as well.

#Control alt etc not working on keyboard for mac full

For example, I run Parallels full screen and use CTRL-Left Arrow and CTRL-Right Arrow (Mac OS standard swap screen keys) to move back and forth between Parallels (Windows) and Mac OS. I downgraded to v1.8.5 as suggested above and it still does not work.

#Control alt etc not working on keyboard for mac mac osx

I'm running Windows 10 as my server, Mac OSX 10.12 for my client. Synergy V1.8.8 did not work for me (CTRL/SHIFT/WIN/ALT keys not working in Parallels through Synergy). At least, this is not the first time I have had to deal with it, but it has probably happened for different reasons. This has been an issue that has come and gone off and on over the years I believe. Some people have reported similar issues using other remote access programs like RDP.

Option Backspace deletes a word in some applications but in the case of Firefox, it brings up the toolbar that offers File Edit View History.

When I actually press the buttons, I can see:

Option Backspace is mapped to Alt L Control R.

Command Backspace is mapped to Control R Shift L.

When I inspect the keyboard mappings in settings -> language and region -> input sources, I can see:

Option Backspace is mapped to LM-BACKSPACE.

Command Backspace is mapped to RC-BACKSPACE.

When I put Kinto in debug mode, I can see: My keyboard language in Ubuntu is American English Macintosh. I have an American Windows keyboard that I use under 'mac' mode, mapping it to a mac style keyboard.

I'm hesitant to call this a bug as no one else has reported it, and I think it could be to do with my set up. Hey! First of all thanks for a brilliant service, you made my transition from mac to Ubuntu a lot lot easier!