Selective keyboard shortcut blocking/allowing

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Sirblackadder

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Hi all!

I'd love to have more control over the keyboard shortcuts in Parallels. It would be great if one could specify which keyboard shortcuts are

a) only recognized by the guest OS if and only if the VM is the active window
b) only recognized by the host OS if either the VM or any other window is active

For example, pressing F12 in UltraEdit (a Windows application) should bring up the "Save As" dialog, but as F12 also serves as the dashboard shortcut in Mac OS, F12 is trapped by Mac OS and not promoted through to the VM. Hence, F12 always shows the dashboard and never has UltraEdit save its documents. Consequently, I'd like to have the Windows F12 functionality when the VM is activated and the Mac F12 dashboard shortcut when any other application is activate.
With Command-Tab things are different. Command-Tag should always and exclusively be processed by Mac OS as the host system and never be promoted through to the guest system.

I wonder if this is even technically possible?

Best wishes, Blacky.
 
Hello Blacky!

Thank you for this suggestion - this one would be really useful and we will try to make it work in future versions of our VM.

Regards,
Max
 
why not Command-Tab too?

F12 can be switched in the preferences, whereas cmd-tab isn't customizable in either OS (as far as I know). Anyway, I'd want that available to be changed as well.
 
I had that issue with my MBP as well, and just solved it by using RemapKeys.exe from Microsoft, and MenuMaster from Unsanity. I switched the windows key with the control key, and now my command key in Parallels acts like the control key. I also removed every keyboard shortcut in Parallels using Menu Master, except command-H (hide).
I am now able to use the command keys in Parallels, but still able to command-tab to OS X.
If a newer version of Parallels would support this, I'd like to see similar behaviour.
 
I guess there are two broad classes of users and potential users: Those who want the VM to act 100% like the guest in native mode with all user input behaving as if the VM were the only thing running (when it has the focus), and those who want the guest to look as much like a Mac as possible.

Since those are two large camps, having the option for both those behaviors seems the best solution. For myself, I want the machine to look like a Mac when the VM does not have focus, and exactly like the guest when the VM has the focus, with one customizable keystroke to switch out of guest mode and back to OSX.

Having these options should satisfy the >99% who can be satisfied, and we can all ignore the <1% who are impossible to satisfy ever.

(But USB is more important to me).
 
Having Parallels in full screen mode, I switch back to the Mac side with command-H.
I switch back to the full screen Parallels session with command-tab.
 
How to disable parallels shorcuts?

I remapped my command key to a ctrl key, in Windows, so I can avoid changing my habits, whatever the OS I am using (command-c, command-v, etc.). The problem is that a few shorcuts are associated with some functions in Parallels, (ex: command-N, etc.) That means I can't use them in windows.
Is there a way to disable all Parallels' shorcuts?

Thanx for your hints...
 
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