18 May 2017

How to get Ctrl-arrow shortcuts working in RDP sessions on macOS / OSX

It looks like recent versions of the official Microsoft Remote Desktop client are a bit shy when it comes to sending CTRL to the remote Windows session. I discovered this because I use Ctrl-Arrow very often to move from word to word, and it just stopped working in RDP.

The solution is to make sure you don't have any overlapping OSX shortcut - typically, CTRL is used for Mission Control actions. Just disable them from System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Mission Control and you should be good to go. Any recent Apple keyboard will have real keys dedicated to those actions anyway.

(Come on Microsoft, show some guts - have an option to bypass Mac shortcuts entirely!)

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous9/11/22 08:23

    Thank you very much!!! I was crazy about this!

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