Beta 3 and Mac OSX. Keyboard problems

Discussion in 'Parallels Desktop for Mac' started by Beamon, Apr 13, 2006.

  1. Beamon

    Beamon Bit poster

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    I have installed beta 3 and Parallels Tools at my MBP and I have some keyboard problems.

    M-key is acting like I hit the Show Desktop-button or Alt-Opt+M, Caps Lock works if I tap three times and the F-key works like I use Alt-Opt+F (Find).

    I had the same problems before I installed Parallels Tools.
     
  2. brettw

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    For the CAPS key I have the same problem on Beta 3 with Solaris
     
  3. mejacobs

    mejacobs Junior Member

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    Is the back-slash functional yet?

    I can't seem to get it to work on my MacBook. It's making it difficult to type directory paths.
     
  4. brettw

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    backslash and pipe are broken still in beta 3 - for Linux/UNIX users thats almost fatal in a shell
     
  5. jimbosyn

    jimbosyn Bit poster

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    I thought it was just me! How am I supposed to parse thorough log files on my RHEL 4.0 VM without a pipe?

    Code:
     egrep "me|you|them" /var/log/messages | less 
    yeah, that no workie

    neither does

    Code:
    smbclient -U blah \\somehost\someshare
    This MBP keyboard mapping needs to be addressed.
     
  6. simon

    simon Member

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    Hit "fn"

    I've seen this, my "f" disappeared and instead brought up a find page in XP.
    I pressed "fn" several times and "f" came back to a real "f".

    I've also seen the weird caps lock light.

    The cat pressed it by accident the other night (you know how they are - wanting to be involved) anyway, the light would not switch off again, despite the actual text shifting between UPPER and lower case correctly.
     
  7. Scott Willsey

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    Almost?! :D It makes it completely unusable in my mind.
     
  8. davidee

    davidee Junior Member

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    solution-ish

    ssh in to the VM only use the vm window as a console. that is what I do (until it is fixed it is a decent option)
     
  9. netdog

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    My numeric keypad doesnt work. -, +, etc work, but numerals do not.
     

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