VMWare Fusion, Windows Remote Desktop, and ALT+TAB
by Marshall on September 8, 2010
I spend about half my time on my MacBook inside a Windows 7 boot camp virtual machine, which is remoted into work. This has worked great for me with one caveat. ALT+TAB. I would say about half the time I press these keys (or ALT+ anything for that matter), I end up getting the non-ALT keystroke sent to my desktop at work. Since I spend most of my time in Visual Studio at work, this means that I am constantly adding TAB characters to my source code, which if it is checked in to TFS, means that Visual Studio automatically checks it out for edit. WHen this happens, I have to stop my workflow and Undo the checkin. Annoying! Today I was fed up and did a quick search on the intertubes and found this forum post: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1431435
The solution?
This is most likely caused by the keyboard shortcuts in Fusion. Try disabling ‘Hide Other Applications’ in Fusion Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Fusion Shortcuts.
Works like a charm! I love Fusion!
2 comments
THANK YOU. Took me forever to find this and set it. Alt-tab was killing me. I had to hit alt-tab-tab to get it work work. Annoying.
by Matt beran on May 24, 2011 at 2:49 pm. #
Saved my bacon. Thanks!
by JohnB on September 1, 2011 at 1:58 pm. #