How to use Windows-like shortcuts in Mac OS Virtual Machine
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1- Compare PC keyboard and Mac keyboard
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Most people are familiar with a computer using Windows operating system . Therefore, if you work with a Mac OS computer for the first time, you will feel confused. The keyboard of the Mac OS is different from that of a common PC. The shortcuts on Mac OS are also different from familiar ones of the Windows.
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PC: is short for Personal Computer. Although computers manufactured by Apple running Mac operating system can be called a personal computer, according to a long-standing habit, PC is used to refer to a personal computer using the Windows operating system and the Windows keyboard. In this post, I also use PC with the same meaning and use Mac to refer to the personal computers manufactured by Apple, running Mac operating system and Mac keyboard.
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This is the image of Mac keyboard:
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Special keys on a Mac keyboard:
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This a keyboard of PCs:
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Special keys on a Windows keyboard:
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This is list of common key combinations on the Windows and corresponding key combination on Mac OS:
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Windows Mac OS Copy Ctrl + C Cmd + C Paste Ctrl + V Cmd + V Cut Ctrl + X Cmd + X Undo Ctrl + Z Cmd + Z Redo Ctrl + Y Cmd + Shift + Z Select All Ctrl + A Cmd + A Find Ctrl + F Cmd + F Home Home Fn + Left Arrow End End Fn + Right Arrow Up Up Fn + Up Arrow Down Down Fn + Down Arrow -
2- Use Ctrl + A, C, V, X in Mac OS
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If you are using a Mac OS virtual computer on a PC, you can not use the (
) Command key because the keyboard of the
PC does not have this key in which case, you can not
copy with the
Cmd + C shortcut. You need to configure
Mac OS so that you can use
Ctrl + C.
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Configure Mac OS to use Ctrl + C, V, X, A, ...
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Access to "System Preferences":
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Choose the "Shortcuts" tab and you can see "App Shortcuts", select "App Shortcuts" and press the (+) icon to add a new shortcut.
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First of all, add a new shortcut for "Cut" (Ctrl + X), enter
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- Menu Title: Cut
- Keyboard Shortcut: Ctrl + X
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Similarly, you can add other shortcuts.
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Menu Title Keyboard Shortcut Description Cut Ctrl + X Copy Ctrl + C Paste Ctrl + V Select All Ctrl + A -
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3- Use the keys such as Home, End, PageDown and PageUp
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If you compose a text regularly, you will often have to move the cursor to the beginning or the end of a line. On Windows you use the 2 Home and End buttons. On the Mac OS to move the cursor to the beginning of the line you need to use the two keys of Fn + Left Arrow and to move the cursor to the end of the line, you need to use Fn + Right Arrow.
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Mac OS allows you to configure to use the buttons such as Home, End, PageUp, PageDown.
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Open Terminal:
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On the Terminal, create ~/Library/KeyBindings folder, and CD the folder just created by running the following comands:
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mkdir -p ~/Library/KeyBindings cd ~/Library/KeyBindings
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On the Terminal, create the DefaultKeyBinding.dict file , ans edit the content of this file.
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# Create File: touch DefaultKeyBinding.dict # Open file to Edit nano DefaultKeyBinding.dict
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Copy & Paste the following content to Terminal.
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{ "\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLine:"; "\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLine:"; "$\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLineAndModifySelection:"; "$\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLineAndModifySelection:"; } -
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Press Ctrl + O, and then press Enter to save changes and press Ctrl + X to exit the file.
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You need to restart Mac OS so that configures work.
