Cmd key on the Windows Keyboard
Given below strong key mapping for service keys by iRAPP:
PC
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Mac
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Caps Lock
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=>
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Caps Lock
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Shift
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=>
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Shift
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Control (Ctrl)
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=>
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Control (Ctrl)
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Option (Alt)
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=>
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Alt
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Start (Win)
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=>
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Command (Cmd)
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In case of RDP clients aren’t transferring the Win key to the server, please
utilize the workaround given below:
Mac Mini, Windows Keyboard
1. From MS RDP Clients unlock the ‘Options => Local
Resources’ tab.
2. Change the "Apply Windows Key
Combinations" peek list to "On remote computer" values.
For the several years Apple has been trying to attract Windows user to test
out the Mac platform, but with the prologue of the Mac mini, there is lastly a
Mac priced low enough for budget minded Windows user to decide. (It also looks to
be magnetizing the disposable income Mac curious — We have talked to numbers of
peoples who are buying one as the 2nd computer just to view what is
all the fuss about.) If we are one of such peoples, or if we have friends who
are, then column of today is for clients.
Apple advertises the Mac mini as being well-matched with any USB type
keyboard, but there is a hold: If our keyboard was designed for utilize with the
Windows computer, it does not have the familiar command of Mac
(a.k.a., “Apple”) or option keys. in its place, it has Windows
keys and Alt. though such keys are in the similar blocks of spaces on the
Windows keyboard as they are available on the Mac keyboard, and these are
logically and functionally equivalent — Alt key works as option, Windows key works
as Apple / command — their layouts are backwards:
Mac keyboard: control
opt command SPACEBAR
command opt control
Windows keyboard:
control Windows Alt
SPACEBAR Alt Windows
control
In other words, when we utilize the Windows keyboard with a Mac, the options
and command keys are changed.
a Mac OS X kernel addition that lets us swap the functionality of the
Windows keys and Alt, thus creating any Windows keyboard behave just like the
keyboard of Mac — supportive not only for “changers,” but also for present Mac
user who had like to be capable to utilize any owl’ Windows keyboard they might
search on deal. (We can even utilize the PS / 2 keyboard with the Mac via a low
cost PS / 2 – to - USB adapters.)
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| Cmd key on the Windows Keyboard |
Such qualities alone make DoubleCommand a must have for Windows keyboard
with the help of Mac users, but it does much more. Via the DoubleCommand
preference pane, we can remap (change the function / position of) a number of keys
on our keyboard. Following is the complete list:
- Enter key acts as control key
- Enter key acts as command key
- Enter key acts as option key
- Command key acts as option key
- Enter key acts as fn key
- Command key acts as control key
- Control key acts as command key
- Option key acts as command key
- Swap control key and option/alt key
- fn key acts as control key
- CapsLock acts as control key
- Swamp numpad . with shift+numpad .
- Disable command and option keys
- Shift-backspace acts as forward delete
- Windows-style home / end keys
- Swap F-key behavior on new PowerBooks and iBooks
- Disable CapsLock
- Backslash () acts as forward delete
(We have bolded the two settings we should use to build our Windows keyboard
work like the Mac keyboard.)
We can select any combinations of the above available option and then save
them for our own user accounts or, if we are an administrative users, for all
users account. (As an attractive side note, DoubleCommand received its name
because its main motto was simply to remap the enter key to commands, thus providing
PowerBook user to two command key.)
As like always, during the working with kernel extension, be confirm to read
the accompanying documentation thoroughly before configuring. Same as, as with
all kernal extension, if Apple release the renew to Mac OS X, it is a good thought
to test the DoubleCommand websites for compatibility before configuring that renew.
That already said, we have been using DoubleCommand on our Mac mini, with keyboard
of Dell, for the previous week and the half. After installing the DoubleCommand
with the help of settings in bold, above, the Dell keyboard acted exactly like our
Mac keyboard. (If we are wondering how to eject DVDs and CDs with the help of
Windows keyboard, easily hold down the F12 key for some second; this copy the
eject key on Apple keyboard.)
If we are new Mac users who like to remain using our presend Windows
keyboard, DoubleCommand is the first software we should download then installed.
[Note that: We recently reviewed the uControl as handy utility, which also
lets us exchange the Windows keys and Alt. Even then, at the time of such writing,
uControl is not the well-matched with Mac OS X 10.3.7, the versions of the Mac
OS that ship with Mac mini]
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