Keyboard Shortcut issue

[appscaptain]

Amazing being able to run your old macOS apps on an iPad! :-D

An issue I noticed. When connecting a magic keyboard and magic mouse (which is much more productive and makes It act like a real Mac) many of the basic shortcuts are overwritten. Like command-w for closing windows (it quits the app), and command-q does nothing. Use these constantly. Tried disabling keyboard shortcuts in Settings > Keyboard but that doesn't change it.

Any ideas or workaround?

[zydeco]

What version of iPad OS are you running?
Some fixes were done in #45, from what I've tested on iPad OS 17.1 it seems the behaviour is the same as 16:

• Some keyboard shortcuts are handled by iOS and can't be intercepted by apps: ⌘-Q, ⌘-H, ⌘-Tab, ⌘-⇧-3, ⌘-⇧-4
• others are passed to the emulated mac

[appscaptain]

Replied to your linked closed issue but will also reply here.

I'd say that personally cmd-h is possible to live more without, however cmd-w and cmd-q is used constantly.. It is really a pain having to manually hit and click on GUI elements as a long time macOS user. The key short shortcuts sit in the fingers so it's very hard not to use them :-)

I hope there is some workaround. I am on 16.4.1. on an iPad gen 6. I can confirm I constantly close the whole emulator with cmd-w (an unhealthy shutdown) by accident because I use it to close every window, making it very hard to use it productively. Have lost so much work. I am wondering if an old iPad 3 with iOS 9 and a Magic Keyboard and Magic Mouse would work better than the newer iOS versions keyboard wise?

Mini VMac on an iPad is such a cool Mac you can bring everywhere. And it's silent. Amazing!

[crutch-meef]

A workaround I have found: If you can train yourself to use ⌘-Shift-Q instead of ⌘-Q to quit emulated apps, that works. It seems the iPad ignores the Shifted keystroke combination, so it gets passed along to the emulator, but vintage apps calling MenuKey don’t bother to notice/check the the Shift key is down, so they just act as if you had pressed ⌘-Q normally and bingo, the emulated app asks to quit normally.

I also think iPad Mini vMac is an amazing piece of work. Thank you!