X Window System

These settings only affect bottles which have been configured to use the legacy X Window System.

Because Windows PCs and Macs typically have different keyboard layouts and different mice, CrossOver provides several mechanisms for adapting your Mac input devices for use with Windows software.

Enable keyboard modifiers for mouse buttons.  If you have a one-button mouse you may wish to enable this setting in order to right-click in Windows applications. Turning this on may interfere with some game controls.

Default value: off

Option Key assignment.  Typically the Option key is assigned to act as an 'Alt' key in Windows. If your keyboard requires use of the Option key for character input (for instance, the use of accents or punctuation), then you may wish to set one of your Option keys to Accesses additional characters for keys instead.

Default value: varies with keyboard setup.

Forward clipboard actions to Windows applications.  On a Macintosh, clipboard actions (cut, copy and paste) are performed using the Command key: Command-X, Command-C and Command-V. On Windows the same actions are performed via Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V.

The control-key combinations are always available in Windows programs running with CrossOver. When interacting with Windows and native OS X applications at the same time it may become awkward to remember which keypresses to use, so CrossOver attempts to support the use of Command-X, Command-C and Command-V in Windows applications as well.

For example, when this option is turned on CrossOver will pass a Ctrl-V keypress to the active Windows application anytime a user presses Command-V or clicks on the EditPaste menu. In most cases this will result in a paste action in the Windows program. If the application uses Command-V for a different purpose, or does not support cutting and pasting, the resulting behavior may be unpredictable.

Default value: on