[orca-list] Using Orca through VMWare Fusion, mapping the Caps Lock key

["E.J. Zufelt" <everett zufelt ca>]

Good afternoon,

Here are directions for manually adding a key map in Fusion to map the  
host accent key (to the left of the 1, to the guest caps lock key,  
note the GUI is currently not accessible from the keyboard alone, but  
a bug has been filed with VMWare.  VMWare has what appears to be the  
best tech support I have ever experienced ** from a commercial  
software provider (smile).

Notes:

mapping11 needs to be set to a unique mapping number for your system,  
so you will need to read through all of the mappings to make sure that  
you are choosing a unique number.  The same is true for mappingKey =  
"23".

pref.keyboardAndMouse.profile0.maxMappings may also need to be  
modified, it is already there, to reflect any changes that you have  
made.

See below.

HTH,
Everett

You can edit the key map manually by shutting down VMware Fusion, then  
opening TextEdit and editing the file:

~/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/preferences

** make a backup of the file first **

To map ` to Caps Lock, you'll need to add something like:

pref.keyboardAndMouse.profile0.mapping11.enabled = "TRUE"
pref.keyboardAndMouse.profile0.mapping11.mappingKey = "23"
pref.keyboardAndMouse.profile0.mapping11.fromHost = "0x29"
pref.keyboardAndMouse.profile0.mapping11.toGuest = "0x3a"

The number after "mapping" may change, depending on the other mappings  
you have installed.  Please choose one that's not already in use.

I've filed VMware bug 366229 to track this dialog not being accessible  
to users without a mouse.  Again, my apologies for the inconvenience.

Ben