Therefore, if, for example, you press CMnd-Tab, you wil find that focus is now outside your virtual machine again, and you'll hear VoiceOver report the name of the last window you were working with on your Mac, and releasing the Cmnd key will place focus on its window. ![]() Moving on, you will need to keep in mind that even when focus is within your Windows virtual machine, VMWare Fusion comes configured by default such that all macOS hot keys are active. What you also must do is to stop interacting with the toolbar, wich habitually grabs focus only after ensuring that focus is outside the toolbar (that is, uninteracting), and that the window is maximized, will Cmnd-G have the desired effect of placing focus within the virtual machine. The second method of entering full screen mode is to find the button labelled Zoom within the toolbar of the running virtual machine if you place focus on it, VoiceOver will speak a tool tip reporting that the button, if pressed, will contain an option for maximizing the window, which is what you need to do. The first way is to use the dedicated hot key Ctrl-Cmnd-F. This can be done in one of two ways, and I have noticed that I often have to try the second way if the first one doesn't work. ![]() What I often have to do is to maximize the virtual machine window, that is, put the virtual machine in full screen mode only after putting it in full screen mode will the Cmnd-G keystroke place focus within the virtual machine. Specifically, what I have learned is that, at least with the current version of VMWare Fusion (May 14, 2019), the keystroke which is dedicated to placing focus within the Windows virtual machine (Cmnd-G) doesn't always do the job, at least not for me. Alas, I soon learned that my fear and trepidation about trying to run Windows on the Mac was well justified. Having got the hang of the idiosncracies of the Mac over the last two years since I bought my first Mac, a 2017 Macbook Pro, I had a feeling that I would be fairly well prepared to be able to switch focus between the Mac operating system and a running virtual machine. Even the ease of pressing Enter on a folder to open it just doesn't exist on the Mac, i.e., you have to press Cmnd-O. ![]() Most especially, We Windows users take for granted the immediate cursor focus which is always present in Windows like, for example, when we open a folder in Windows, and press an arrow key, we immediately begin moving through the list of the files and folders within it on the Mac, you first must interact with the list control. I can say with complete honesty that it has been quite a challenge to do things as a Mac user. Being blind makes it quite a challenge to change anything, and, when you're used to doing things on Windows for years, you can't help but be squeamish about changing to a completely different operating system. I have to be honest and say that I am a pretty advanced PC user, not a genious, but advanced enough to write apps for the Window-Eyes screen reader (alas, no longer supported by the big company who bought out the former GW Micro). Also, as good fortune would have it, VMWare Fusion Pro just got updated on May 14, 2019, and so, when I bought it, on the following day, on May 15, 2019, I knew I was really up to date. As luck would have it, VMWare was running a 25 percent discount on their products, and so I had an incentive to finally see if I could get Windows running on my Mac. Recently, My hope was to switch to using Apple hardware and so to eventually buy a Mac, buy VMWare Fusion Pro, and then just send a customized virtual machine across my network to my Mac, and, if all went well, it would roar to life on the Mac. ![]() I have used VMWare Workstation Pro on Windows 7 and 10 for a few years now.
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