French keyboard mapping using VMware Fusion
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Bored with a couple of issues with my MacBook Pro, upgraded from Mountain Lion to Yosemite via Mavericks, I decided to reinstall the whole thing. I didn’t restore system parameters from Time Machine as I believe there were blobs lying there. After installing VMware Fusion 7.1.1 from scratch, I opened my previous Windows VMs and discovered my french keyboard wasn’t mapped correctly…
Same issue as seen before with other software. Keys like “@”, “-” or “=”
weren’t available from where the keyboard says they are. After a long digg on
the Internet, I found that VMware KB
.
The important part, in my case, was:
Note: For language specific key mapping to work (example, < , > ^ @ etc), it should be enabled under preferences.
- Click VMware Fusion menu.
- Click Preferences.
- Select Keyboard & Mouse tab.
- Select Key Mappings sub-tab.
- Select Profile - Default from the drop down at the top.
- Check Enabled Language Specific Key Mappings.
- Close Preferences.
And french keyboard mapping is back correct again. YeePee!