We have made a lot of progress in the last month with making Mac OS X run in QEMU. A lot of people are to thank for this milestone. To everyone involved, thank you.
There is one thing that we have to figure out. That is the command key issue. This key is a very important on the Macintosh. It is used to send keyboard shortcuts to applications.
What I propose is adding a menu item to QEMU's menu called "Map Command key to ALT". This would allow a user to be able to send Macintosh applications command key shortcuts from both a PC and Mac keyboard.
I welcome any and all ideas to solve this problem.
On 04.07.2013, at 16:40, Programmingkid wrote:
We have made a lot of progress in the last month with making Mac OS X run in QEMU. A lot of people are to thank for this milestone. To everyone involved, thank you.
There is one thing that we have to figure out. That is the command key issue. This key is a very important on the Macintosh. It is used to send keyboard shortcuts to applications.
What I propose is adding a menu item to QEMU's menu called "Map Command key to ALT". This would allow a user to be able to send Macintosh applications command key shortcuts from both a PC and Mac keyboard.
I welcome any and all ideas to solve this problem.
This is the wrong mailing list for this. Your proposal would touch non-PPC code in QEMU, so this needs to go to qemu-devel.
Keep in mind that the same thing arises with x86 Mac OS X running in QEMU.
Alex
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Alexander Graf agraf@suse.de wrote:
On 04.07.2013, at 16:40, Programmingkid wrote:
We have made a lot of progress in the last month with making Mac OS X run in QEMU. A lot of people are to thank for this milestone. To everyone involved, thank you.
There is one thing that we have to figure out. That is the command key issue. This key is a very important on the Macintosh. It is used to send keyboard shortcuts to applications.
What I propose is adding a menu item to QEMU's menu called "Map Command key to ALT". This would allow a user to be able to send Macintosh applications command key shortcuts from both a PC and Mac keyboard.
I welcome any and all ideas to solve this problem.
This is the wrong mailing list for this. Your proposal would touch non-PPC code in QEMU, so this needs to go to qemu-devel.
Keep in mind that the same thing arises with x86 Mac OS X running in QEMU.
When I VNC into a Mac I find that the "Windows key" becomes the Command key. And the same probably happens when you plug a non-Apple USB keyboard into a Mac.
If you are using a keyboard with a "Windows key" then that would be the most natural option. If you don't have that key then you really need to map something else...
Stefan
On 2013-Jul-4 10:40 , Programmingkid wrote:
What I propose is adding a menu item to QEMU's menu called "Map Command key to ALT". This would allow a user to be able to send Macintosh applications command key shortcuts from both a PC and Mac keyboard.
I think "Alt" is the wrong key for that - you should be using the "Windows" key. "Alt" has its own meaning under MacOS which you don't want to lose.
On Jul 4, 2013, at 11:04 AM, Tarl Neustaedter wrote:
On 2013-Jul-4 10:40 , Programmingkid wrote:
What I propose is adding a menu item to QEMU's menu called "Map Command key to ALT". This would allow a user to be able to send Macintosh applications command key shortcuts from both a PC and Mac keyboard.
I think "Alt" is the wrong key for that - you should be using the "Windows" key. "Alt" has its own meaning under MacOS which you don't want to lose.
Nothing would be lost. My plan would allow the user to decide how the ALT key should be used. It would be easily switchable at runtime. It would be as easy as selecting a menu item.
Remember that the Windows key isn't on every keyboard. But I am not against using that key if the user want to use it.
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