

Right, I understand there are variations in layouts, which is a different topic, but also lends support to the need for the ability to customize the keyboard layout.īut I'm not talking about these outlier cases of custom/unusual/outdated keyboard layouts. Hope this helps and please help to accept as Answer if the response is useful. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy and effectiveness of information. Please note: Information posted in the given link is hosted by a third party. How would I remap Mac CMD to CTRL keys in Remote Desktop Connection for Mac application?

However per further searching, some users shared their experience to map the keyboard like usage of “third party app Karabiner” to customize the keyboard layout.

The Command key on the Mac keyboard equals the Windows key.Some of these are Mac specific layouts or custom layouts for which an exact match may not be available on the version of Windows you are remoting into.įollowing are examples for Mac keyboard layouts differ from the Windows keyboard layouts Mac keyboard layouts differ from the Windows keyboard layouts. Is there any way at all to reverse these two keys? I don't need full mapping, just these two keys need to be reversed. This means that if you, like me, switch between Mac and Windows and RDC from Mac to Windows, the muscle memory is all wrong and you will constantly hit the wrong keys. Instead, what we have is that the first makes sense, but for some reason these last two are swapped: So it would make sense to map in that order, from left to right, wouldn't it? On a Mac keyboard the keys to the left of the spacebar, in order from left-to-right are: (For example, on Apple and Microsoft's own websites at the keyboards they make and sell) The mapping of the Command and Option keys to the Windows keyboard layout is backwards to every US keyboard layout I can find. Is there any way to remap keys on the MacOS version of Remote Desktop?
