Command Key Mapped to Control Key?

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Brian Lampe

January 29, 2014 22:34

I'm on Jump Desktop for the Mac RDP'ing to a Windows box.  What I would like to do is map the Command key on my Mac so that it always, always, no matter what the combination, is read as Control in Windows.  I have a map for Command to Control, but it doesn't apply across the various combinations.  Mapping each combination when I really have no use for the Windows key is kind of a pain.

Can this be done simply?

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  Jump Desktop Support February 11, 2014 08:51 (Edited January 15, 2019 15:16)

  Edited: Jan 2019: Full modifier mapping was added to Jump Desktop for Mac in v7. You can now map modifiers (i.e. Cmd to Option etc). Also check out @Mkozak's response at the bottom.

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  Hi Brian,

  Replacing Command with Control isn't possible yet. We'll try to add this for v5.0. In the meantime the best way to map keys with 4.x is to add individual key shortcuts into Jump's "Windows" keyboard profile: Open Jump Desktop click Preferences -> Keyboard & Mouse. Set the "Profile" to "Windows". Then click "Key Conversions" and click + to add individual shortcut conversions that you normally use (i.e. Command + shortcut key to Control + key).

   

  Hi Brian,

  Replacing Command with Control isn't possible yet. We'll try to add this for v5.0. In the meantime the best way to map keys with 4.x is to add individual key shortcuts into Jump's "Windows" keyboard profile: Open Jump Desktop click Preferences -> Keyboard & Mouse. Set the "Profile" to "Windows". Then click "Key Conversions" and click + to add individual shortcut conversions that you normally use (i.e. Command + shortcut key to Control + key).

   

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  Mark Freedman December 04, 2014 20:07

  It appears that we cannot map some Command + combinations to Control +. For example, it completely ignores my mapping of Command+R to Control+R, and in Windows, always opens the Run dialog.

  Most others seem to work.

  Can you confirm this is the case, or am I doing something wrong?

  Thanks.

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  kiben17 January 31, 2015 13:25

  Hello,

  I use Jump Desktop from my macbook pro to a windows 7 machine. The reason I purchased Jump Desktop was because copy and paste within the remote session is temperamental for every other application I have used (Microsoft Remote Desktop, 2X RDP, CoRD). I haven't used Jump Desktop too much yet but I get the impression that the ability to map key combinations has solved the problem (I say hesistantly...). The mapping of command C to control C for example seems to be pretty robust. I have also mapped command I with control I and command B with control B with success.

  The only downside is that I cannot unmap command with the windows key, which means that every now and again when I copy, paste, bold, italisice etc. the start menu will pop up. This is quite annoying, but a price that I have been wiling to pay for the more robust copy paste commands. I have tried mapping just the command key with control, and the control key with command, but that hasn't worked.

  Is there any way of solving this problem?

   

  Many thanks,

  Ben 

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  Jump Desktop Support February 04, 2015 19:36

  @Ben - at the moment there is no way to 'unmap' the windows key in the current release. We're going to add an option for this in the next update. 

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  kiben17 February 04, 2015 20:26

  Ok, excellent. Any idea when this is likely to be?

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  kswest September 10, 2015 17:27

  While not built into JumpDesktop you can achieve the same result using Karabiner (https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/). Here is the private.xml you'll need to get things rolling: https://gist.github.com/kylewest/60c7a388e4d1e8845c4f I've been using this for a couple months without issue. It maps the left command key to control but still allows Cmd-Tab to pass through for app switching. 

  Kyle

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  Dave Nathanson August 16, 2018 04:34

  Connecting from Mac OSX 10.12 to control a Mac G4 OSX 10.4 (Vine Server 3.0 with the Tiger Bundle removed). That's some great backwards compatibility! Except the option & Command keys are reversed.

  In Jump Desktop 7 (v5+?) you can remap key combos as mentioned above. See attached graphic. Works well... Solves the problem at least for my use case. Back to regular life!

  

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  Mkozak January 12, 2019 03:21 (Edited January 12, 2019 03:25)

  This is indeed possible via Jump Desktop menu-->Preferences...-->Keyboard & Mouse-->Key Conversions (enabled)-->"+"-->just click Cmd at the top (don't hit any other key to add to it!) and then Control at the bottom (likewise, don't add another key to it)-->click "OK".

  Finally, no more START menu opening and and accidental web searches for the text when just trying to (and ever so slightly missing the timing) copy/paste between macOS and Windows - yay!

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