Change the Default Ctrl+Alt Key Combination on VMware Workstation

Contributed by johnnythawte  
Tagged: Windows  

If you are a heavy VMware user like I am, you will know that the default Ctrl+Alt escape sequence to release the input focus can interfere with using hotkeys in your virtual machine, especially when trying to use the Ctrl+Alt+Backspace combination in Xwindows. This recipe is the simple way to change it.

To change the setting, to to the Edit menu and choose Preferences.

Select the Hot Key tab, and you will have 3 choices:

1) Ctrl + Alt

2) Ctrl + Shift + Alt

3) Custom: Ctrl / Alt / Shift + Down / Up

If you want to be able to quickly shift from your virtual machine back to your desktop, the custom combinations let you specify something easy.

If you are like me, you selected option 2, which is probably the most difficult key combination to accidentally hit.