Friday, October 16, 2015

switching between windows in VNC viewer and also in host OS Windows

Hi all, I use VNC Viewer for my office work. I would like to switch between windows in my VNC viewer and also between windows in host OS Windows using short cut keys. Through default settings, this isn't possible. So here is the solution for this problem.

1. short cut key for switching windows in both VNC viewer OS and in host Windows OS is same i.e. Alt+Tab
2. To allow switching windows in VNC Viewer, we need to allow it to send special keys directly to VNC Server in its settings [go to settings, select input tab]
3. Because we allowed VNC Viewer to send special keys to its VNC Server, we will not be able to switch between windows in host OS Windows.
4. In this case, we should disable 'send special keys directly to VNC Server' in VNC Viewer settings.
5. But we need to edit the keyboard shortcut key setting for switching windows in VNC Viewer OS [Go to Preferences->Keyboard shortcuts->change shortcut for windows switching e.g. ctrl+tab]
6. the shortcut selected in step 5 should not be a shortcut for some other action in host OS
7. this will allow us to switch windows in host OS using alt+tab, and also to switch windows in VNC Viewer OS using ctrl+tab

hope this is helpful for you.


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