Okay it’s been a while. Nobody reads this regularly anyway, since all my google analytics hits are from google! I digress!
I recently became the proud owner of a Macbook Pro. It was about time I have all the modern development platforms at my fingertips, including native OSX and iPhone/iPad development platforms. So far, I’ve been very happy with the quality of the product, the ease with which I was able to become efficient with OSX, etc. I installed VMWare Fusion and installed Windows 7 in BootCamp so I could do .NET development.
One of the things that has really “gotten my goat” though is the lack of a menu context key! I’m a serious keyboard junky, and not having the ability to “right click” to get a context menu really upset me. The most painful instance of that is in Visual Studio inside VMWare Fusion. I constantly use the Menu key to create new files, go to properties, run stylecop… ALL KINDS OF STUFF THAT’S USEFUL! A couple people told me it was impossible to get that key in Windows… and to me, that’s a challenge, brotha!
So, here’s how to do it, in VMWare Fusion. On the VMWare Fusion menu bar (??), go to Preferences. Click the “Keyboard & Mouse” section. I created a new profile to do this so I could leave the default alone. Anyway, on the bottom left, click the plus sign (+). This brings up a “From/To” mapping window. I mapped Command + / to “Menu” (no other keys on the To selection). Click OK, and give that context menu some love!
How do the other OSX virtualization platforms stack up for this need? VirtualBox? Others? Let me know in the comments!