Windows 10 loses focus on pressing Alt (Option)

Discussion in 'Windows Virtual Machine' started by ScottB31, Nov 16, 2020.

  1. ScottB31

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    Running Desktop 16 Pro v16.1.0. This happened before, then stopped, but is back again:

    Running a Windows 10 vm fullscreen, then pressing Alt (on a PC keyboard) or Option (on MacBook Pro keyboard) to access a menu - or in my case to open a popup menu using Alt+Enter (JetBrains Rider, but not specific to that tool) - causes the keypress to be sent to the vm - the expected menu appears, but the focus is removed from the vm and all keypresses "go missing" - i.e. are sent somewhere else.

    To get focus back I have to either click on the full-screen vm (which closes the popup menu) or if I mouse up to the top of the screen to have the Parallels window frame appear then click on the vm window title - the focus is then given back to the vm. Unfortunately the second method only intermittently works, and is a massive block to my flow.

    Anyone else getting this?
     
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    Oh forgot to add, this doesn't happen when running the vm in a window, just full-screen.
     

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