(I think it was just “ctrl” because that is the typical contextual-menu click shortcut. I’m really sorry, but I cannot remember what the default was exactly. The bugger is the Mouse Right Click setting. Open it from under the Parallels menu item then goto the keyboard tab: Here are the settings you need to make your Parallels preferences pane. If you’re experiencing this and searching for the answer on how to remedy this – (I couldn’t find it anywhere, so I wrote this) you’ll be happy to know that you can get your shift-constrain-copy back. Parallels took an annoyance and brought to a full-blown frustration. You can ctrl-drag-copy, but you cannot shift-constrain. I’m talking about the ability to constrain the displacement of an object to just the Y or X axis by holding “shift” and “ctrl” as you click-and-drag to copy an object. It’s when Parallels kills the ability to shift-constrain a drag-copy. When frequently hopping between the two platforms, it’s gets a little more than annoying, but still not too bad. So, “control” is typically one key to the left. “Alt” on a PC is in the same place as “option” on a mac. For example, option-click-drag to move and copy something in a graphics app on the Macintosh will translate to ctrl-click-drag in the same app on a PC. I’ve laid out how to change the keyboard configuration in Parallels to remedy this.Īnybody who has changed platforms can relate to the annoyances of relearning keystroke combinations to compliment mouse functions. Ctrl-drag-copy still works, but the shift-constrain no longer works. If you’re running Windows in a Parallels environment on an Intel Macintosh, you may have found that the shift-constrain-copy keyboard shortcut no longer works.
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