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#VIRTUALBOX HOST KEY REMAP INSTALL#
Now download and install (or run as portable) AutoHotkey app.Ĭreate file on your desktop called as you wish, in my example it is rctrl.ahk.Įdit this file and put some magic into it: 1 Just like it is shown in the screenshot below. Run it and remap default Expressive Key to Application Key. Welcome to my fascinating $50 keyboard key swap tutorial.įirst. Change emoji key to ctrl in Microsoft designer keyboard I’ll probably make this a separate headline… so here it comes. Since, I think I’ve explained everything, I can safely move on to the most important part of this article, which is changing the emoji key to the right control. An old, stubborn man like me will say, no. This key is crucial for my existence.Ī wise man will say, change the key combination in Virtual Box to another and live with it.
#VIRTUALBOX HOST KEY REMAP FULL#
So I press this button for almost last ten years in combination Right Control + F, just to turn on and off the full screen view :) and now, my new keyboard which I thought would be the best in the world and I paid for it around fifty bucks does not have a key I am using for ten years. By default, this is the right Ctrl key on your keyboard. To return ownership of keyboard and mouse to your host OS, Oracle VM VirtualBox reserves a special key on your keyboard: the Host key. For example if you work a lot with virtual machines like the one in Virtual Box, the Right Control key is the host key. It is even more funny when you Google phrase like ms designer keyboard right control or change emoji key to ctrl in Microsoft designer keyboard.īut why do you need a Right Control key? (for god sake who uses the right control key - now I’m offending myself and I apologize if I inadvertently felt offended). As you can guess so far, there is no option to select in official MS app to choose to remap that key to the Right Control.
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Fortunately using Mouse and Keyboard Center app you can remap that key to Office Key (another useless fancy key, unless I have again offended an MS Office expert who turns on MS Office with this button every morning) or Application Key (you used that key once in your life, for few minutes, when your mouse was broken and you had a critical need, to click right key, to display a context menu and you are born before 2000). Yeah you read it correctly, EMOJI! Just in case you would like to have a box of your favorite emojis to use in seconds (I’m sorry if I offended anyone who actually uses it, you sic bastard!). It is a key which by default run “emoji” window. In place of right control there is a “Expressive Key”. So what is so funny? Besides the wife screaming “it’s probably the hundredth keyboard, why do you need another one” it does not have a right control key. It is small, very comfortable keyboard and very well designed. Additionally, to have a full set I also bought Microsoft Number Pad (my wife is using num pad a lot, so when she finishes her stuff, I can always put that separate numpad to the drawer). (I tested so many keyboards in my life and spent fortune on them… but this is probably a story for separate article). Today’s article is sponsored by Right Control key.įunny situation… some time ago I bought another keyboard, this time Microsoft Designer Compact Keyboard. Sometimes simple things require complex solutions.