Map right alt key

[mcgroarty]

No no, the desired option is to send left-alt to the guest, not to read it from the host.

However it's not correct that macOS doesn't distinguish between left- and right- modifier keys. Here is an application that demonstrates this using entirely userspace calls: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/key-codes/id414568915?mt=12 - click the (I) icon next to a modifier event to see the corresponding enumerations from https://opensource.apple.com/source...DSystem/IOKit/hidsystem/IOLLEvent.h.auto.html

 

[Dmitry Geynisman]

No no, the desired option is to send left-alt to the guest, not to read it from the host.

However it's not correct that macOS doesn't distinguish between left- and right- modifier keys. Here is an application that demonstrates this using entirely userspace calls: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/key-codes/id414568915?mt=12 - click the (I) icon next to a modifier event to see the corresponding enumerations from https://opensource.apple.com/source...DSystem/IOKit/hidsystem/IOLLEvent.h.auto.html

@mcgroarty, yes, please accept my apologies, you are correct. In Parallels Desktop 17, we have reworked our keyboard remapping code, so you can now add a remap record that didn't work before (see ) to enable the left Alt key to act as AltGr key in Windows so that you can use the left Option+keystroke combination for entering accented symbols exactly the same way as you do it on macOS. Make sure that you have a Parallels keyboard added in Windows. These layouts are marked as "(Apple) - Parallels" and being added default when installing a new Windows VM ( AND if corresponding layouts are added on macOS). To add this keyboard manually, navigate to Language options, and click "Add a keyboard" under the "Keyboards" section.

I am sorry for the misunderstanding. Please let me know if you can now get the desired keyboard behavior in Parallels Desktop 17 with this improvement I described.