AltGr in Parallels Desktop on a laptop Mac
This hint may only apply to users with a non-US keyboard. In Sweden on a Windows machine, you press AltGr+2 to get the @-sign. A Mac keyboard of course has no AltGr key, but I thought one could use the key combination Control-Alt instead. In many cases you can do that. However, Office 2003 (at least the Swedish version) doesn't recognize Control-Alt as AltGr, though many other programs do. Of course this is problem when working in Outlook 2003. The solution: remap keys in Windows. I tried many remapping utilities, but many didn't do the job. Maybe because the utilities are designed for US keyboards. I found one free utility that do work: KeyTweak. Download and install (in Windows in Parallels, obviously). I used the 'Half Teach Mode' to remap the right Command key to 'Right Alt' (AltGr). Then use the Apply button to let KeyTweak write the remapping into Windows' Registry. Since it is a registry change, it means that the rem...
published on Wednesday, the 20. September 2006, macosxhints
10.4: Boot Camp and the AltGr key on German systems
All you Boot Camp users out there might know this already -- you can emulate the AltGr key with Control-Alt. But today I installed the new Boot Camp 1.1 Beta, and a fresh windows XP Pro ... and found that the AltGr emulation function was gone. After some looking around, I found the solution in Control Panels -> Regional and Language Options -> Languages tab -> Details button. In there was a keyboard layout called german(apple). After I installed the default German keyboard, the problem went away. I can now emulate the AltGr key again, and even the new "right Command key as right-click" option works.
published on Monday, the 21. August 2006, macosxhints