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Jakob Schiøtz

Using Workspace with a non-US keyboard on a Mac

 

Hi Workspace developers,

Thank you for your great tool!

I am having some trouble using Workspace from a Mac with a non-US (in my case Danish) keyboard.  The symbols that require pressing Alt together with a key do not work, that makes it impossible to type things like | [ ] { } and similar, making programming (and using Linux) a bit more challenging :)

A workaround seems to be to switch my Mac to a US keyboard layout.  But then I have to guess where all the symbols are, since most are in a different place.  Furthermore, caps lock does not work, neither with Danish nor US keyboard layout.  I know these keyboard issues may be difficult to fix, VirtualBox for example has not got it right yet.

Best regards

Jakob

 

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    George Hurst

    On macOS, you can customize your keys and layout in System Preferences. Go to "System Settings" - "Keyboard" - "Text Input". Click "Change keyboard layout" and select the one you want. Make sure "Use Alt key to select second-level character" is enabled to use Alt to enter []{} and other characters. There are a lot of problems with MacBooks, I recently came across how to fix startup disk full problem, I found  https://setapp.com/how-to/fix-startup-disk-full-problem for this. Problems will always appear. You think that you know everything about your device, but this is far from the case.

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    Danny Golmings

    oh thanks

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    Hamlet Moor

    I also had problems with the keyboard.

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      Jorge Canton

      Same problem?

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