Flip 3D

[pjcraddock]

Kudos on a great release! Parallels keeps getting better all the time!
Quick easy question I didn't see in the docs... What is the keystroke for Flip 3D in Windows 7?

 

[serv]

The short answer is: Alt+1+Tab.

Flip3D is normally activated by Win+Tab on PC keyboard. By default Parallels maps Cmd to Win key, so Cmd+Tab would have worked, but it's also OS X task switching shortcut. So there's an additional mapping: Alt+1 to Win key which helps in this case.
You can control keyboard mappings from Parallels Preferences / Keyboard & Mouse.

 

[iduff]

So when I'm in a Win VM, i could care less about the Mac task switching shortcut, and would like to map Cmd+Tab to act as Win+Tab, but can't figure out how to do so. Any pointers?

 

[serv]

iduff,

Parallels Desktop menu -> Preferences -> Keyboard & Mouse -> uncheck Enable OS X System Shortcuts.

 

[iduff]

Remap Win+Tab?

I'd like to remap the funky Alt+1+Tab (very inconvenient when the focus is on a Win7 Parallels 5 VM) to Cmd+Tab, but seemingly am denied the ability to do so.

Unchecking the "Enable Mac OS X system shortcuts" neither enables Cmd+Tab, nor allows me to map that key combo.

Any thoughts or guidance on how to get rid of Alt+1+Tab and map Cmd+Tab to Win+Tab?

 

[serv]

iduff,

Oops... non-working Cmd+Tab -> Win+Tab mapping needs to be fixed on our side. We're sorry for inconvenience.

 

[iduff]

Cool, at least now I can stop beating myself up for not being able to figure it out! I look forward to your fix!

 

[iduff]

I'm happy to report that this has been fixed in 6.0.11820. Thanks, Parallels

 

[iduff]

Not only has this been fixed in Window and in Full Screen modes, it even work in Coherence mode!?! WTF? Yep, Parallels engineers rock!