The solution works quite well for me and it resolves a perennial problem of how to use the Cmd button while on a Windows PC without having to rely on external apps or plugins. on your local PC to trigger the corresponding Cmd-C, Cmd-V etc. Click to close the dialog window.Īt this point you should be able to use Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V etc. Except F11, which was toggling the desktop (minize everything and show desktop). Using my external keyboard (regular PC keyboard) all function keys were working fine (F5 run, F10 step over, etc). the configuration should now look like in the image below. New to Mac here (in 2021), using MacOS 11.2 (Big Sur) and doing RDP into my Windows for Visual Studio.if needed, click to enter more key mappings.enter "ControlLeft" in the "from" field.From the table above we see that the code for the (left) Ctrl key is "ControlLeft", while the code for the Cmd key is "MetaLeft", so from the "Configure Key Mappings" dialog: If you go through the standard you'll find the useful "List of code values for functional keys in the Alphanumeric section" table, which I also replicate below.Ĭoncretely, let's say you want to map your local (Windows) Ctrl key to the remote (Mac) Cmd key. An important thing to note is that the keycodes supported by Chrome Remote Desktop are not the usual "ASCII" codes to which every developer is used to (I did this error myself the first time) rather, the codes should be taken from the " UI Events KeyboardEvent code Values" W3C standard. The option is available in the sidebar as shown below.Ĭlicking the link opens the "Configure Key Mapping" dialog, from which you can create your own mapping. My solution to this problem is to leverage the handy "Configure Key Mapping" command provided by the latest version of Chrome Remote Desktop (v.
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