# shortcut in windows app (remote windows)

**URL:** <https://community.folivora.ai/t/shortcut-in-windows-app-remote-windows/42294>\
**Category:** Bugs or Unexpected Behavior\
**Created:** [February 13, 2025, 9:39am UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/shortcut-in-windows-app-remote-windows/42294 "2025-02-13T09:39:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![lucash9](https://community.folivora.ai/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/9d8465/32.png) [@lucash9](https://community.folivora.ai/u/lucash9)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 9:39am UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/shortcut-in-windows-app-remote-windows/42294/1 "2025-02-13T09:39:16Z")

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I am using a Windows application on my Mac to connect to another workstation running Windows. I have created shortcuts to make it easier to copy and paste on the touchpad, for example, triple-finger-click-CommandC, double triple-finger-click-CommandV, and they work fine on the local Mac machine. The problem is that they just don't work in the Windows application. I get the letter C instead of Copy and the letter V instead of Paste. When I use CommandC and CommandV directly from the keyboard, they work fine, so the application is handling the key mapping well. Is there any solution to this problem?

## Edit: It seems that passing key combinations doesn't work in Windows App. Instead of passing a combination like cmd+V, it just passes only V. For now, I have found a workaround and it works well, but I need an extra app (Microsoft PowerToys) on the remote Windows machine to do this.

**Device information:**

- Type of Mac: Mac mini
- macOS version: 15.3.1
- BetterTouchTool version: 5.193 (2025021213)

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**Author:** ![Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/andreas_hegenberg/32/39221_2.png) [@Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/u/Andreas_Hegenberg)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 2:55pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/shortcut-in-windows-app-remote-windows/42294/2 "2025-02-17T14:55:01Z")

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unfortunately most remote desktop apps and virtual machine apps do not handle programatically generated events correctly. I'm not aware of any good workarounds