Control C And V Not Working For A Mac OS X System

An interesting work around I found though, is to exit Coherence and go back to Coherence, then all the keyboard issues seem fixed as they all got refreshed.

The CTRL key does not seem to work in any Windows application.

The key itself is not damaged, as it worked with previous versions of Parallels Desktop.

I used to be able to get the functionality (CTRL-left arrow, CTRL-right arrow, etc.) to work by using fn-shift-ctrl-leftright to select a word or a line from the cursor point forward or backward, and then RELEASING THE SHIFT key; but that was in PD 6.0.12092, Rev 670880 and earlier.

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I cant select any text using CTRL-SHIFT-(updownleftright) This is a MAJOR deal breaker for me as I do a lot of coding (PSPAD) and text editing.

Parallels Desktop for Mac 6.0.12094 (Revsion 676494; July 13, 2011) Lion 10.7.0 Host OS Win XP Pro PS Pad I will definitely purchase parallels but only if this is resolved.

Also tried the left mouse key, which brings up the menu with Paste in it but the menu disappears before I can click on Paste.

Control C And V Not Working For A Mac OS X System

The latter has CTRL arrow left and CTRL arrow right assigned by default, and with Parallels preferences keyboard Enable Mac OS X system shortcuts checked, the above combinations trigger Mission Control functions even from inside the VM - thats what the preference item is for.

To avoid this, you can go two ways - Disable the checkbox in the Parallels preferences (the easy way - but you lose all system keys at once within the VM); or remove the assignment of those two shortcuts in Mac OS X system preferences keyboard keyboard shortcuts.

Uncheck them, and you are fine inside the Windows VMs.

Theres no pain unless you would like to use the shortcuts for Mission Control.

Since Mission Control only makes real fun with gestures enabled, most people with gesture-capable machines wont need the shortcuts.

You could even assign other shortcuts to Mission Control if you liked.

Regards.

I dont care a whit about Mission Control, having Ctrl-arrow functionality is critical in my job.

And by it being fixed I mean in my Win7 guest OS I can now use CTRL-SHIFT to select multiple words when text editing.

Thanks It seems like this might be a bug in OS X - the Mission Control hotkey was bound to CTRL-UP and Application Windows was bound to CTRL-DOWN, so seems a little odd that theyd interfere with CTRL-SHIFT LEFT or RIGHT.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated, running Parallels 6 and Snow Leopard.

I enabled the Optimize modifier keys and that seems to resolve the Shift key issues.