Make sure your global keyboard hotkeys are unassigned (from the System Preferences / Keyboard / Shortcuts) before you proceed. Very Important: Some of the hotkeys below conflict with your macOS’s default global hotkeys. Make sure you use the RDP Client to remote into the Windows Machine in order for the following keyboard shortcuts to work. This is different from the MacBook’s “Delete” key (which is equivalent to the “Backspace” key). What is important to know is that when using a MacBook’s keyboard, you don’t have all the keys that you usually have on a PC keyboard.Įssentially, you are missing the following keys: If the Answer is helpful, please click "Accept Answer" and upvote it.In this blog post, I am going to share with you how to get the missing keyboard keys that let you work in MS Windows via the remote desktop client under Mac OS X with the MacBook’s keyboard. (If your Mac is running an en-us OS, that will be used for the remote sessions as well.) If the OS keyboard locale is not used, check the keyboard setting on the remote PC and change it manually.įrequently asked questions about the Remote Desktop clients The Alt key to the right of the space bar on the Mac keyboard equals the Alt Gr/right Alt key in Windows.īy default, the remote session will use the same keyboard locale as the OS you're running the client on.The function keys can be activated in the session by pressing additionally the FN key (for example, FN+F1).To perform actions that use the Command button on the Mac, you will need to use the control button in Windows (for example Copy = Ctrl+C).The Command key on the Mac keyboard equals the Windows key.The remote session maps your keyboard to the best matching keyboard language available on the remote PC. 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. There are many types of Mac keyboard layouts. Mac keyboard layouts differ from the Windows keyboard layouts.
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