Tip: Control-click
Unlike OS X, most other operating systems require the use of multibutton mice. Most Mac users know you can ctrl-click to simulate a right click, and you can do that in Fusion as well. But what if you actually want to ctrl-click in the guest - say, to select multiple items in Explorer?
In Fusion's Preferences, go to the Keyboard & Mouse tab, Mouse Shortcuts. Uncheck the secondary button shortcut (or map it to something else) - now you can ctrl-click in the guest.
If you still need to right click and don't want to remap to a different shortcut, there may be other options. For laptop users, you can enable two-finger right clicks in System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Trackpad. If you have a Mighty Mouse, you can enable right click in System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Mouse. And of course, since OS X has always supported multibutton mice, you can always plug in your favorite multibutton mouse.
Thanks!
Posted by: Martijn | November 09, 2008 at 03:44 AM
Alternatively, you can hold the control and command keys and click to effect a ctrl-click in the guest.
Posted by: Daryl Spitzer | November 16, 2008 at 06:38 AM
Thanks. THAT should be the default setting.
Posted by: Roy Wagner | November 19, 2008 at 05:25 AM
FYI: This tip doesn't work in Fusion v2.0 - v2.03 (latest version as of this writing on Apr 6, 2009), if you have any key mappings that target a VM shortcut using the Control key. Similarly shift-click doesn't work if you use a key mapping using the Shift key.
After much experimentation, I finally found this thread in which someone from VMware confirms this problem and filed it as bug 351331:
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/180586
Downgrading to Fusion 1.1.3 doesn't resolve the problem if you need the key mappings, since Fusion 1 did not support key mappings at all.
I guess I have to wait until the next version of Fusion. I need several key mappings that involve the Control and/or Shift keys.
Posted by: Tom | April 06, 2009 at 08:38 PM
Works great with 3.0
Should be the default I agree.
Posted by: Neal O | November 17, 2009 at 04:21 AM
(posted on another site)
You can use default options and command-control-click to "control-click" multiple non-adjacent items in 3.0/Win7/OS10.6/Excel2007 & probably other versions, too. Careful tho--you can only tell that you've done it by highlighted row letters, not the usual more obvious way as on a native keyboard/OS. Works fine, tho....
Took me a while to track this down but it's a lot easier than lots of the other options cited across the web.
Many thanks to this person:
Posted by: Martijn | November 09, 2008 at 03:44 AM
:-)Shawn
Posted by: Shawn | November 25, 2009 at 01:50 PM