Cmd-key shortcuts break in iPadOS 16.3

[crutch68k]

Hi, love running this on my iPad and using it for software development daily: https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/adjusting-sound-volume-with-keyboard-shortcuts-on-68k-macs.43221/#post-471713

Have a problem since the latest software update though: the iPad now appears to be stealing many Cmd-key combinations (this always happened with Cmd-Q but now appears to also intercept Cmd-F, Cmd-G, and most troubling Cmd-W) so vintage apps running under Mini vMac can't see them.

This makes Mini vMac much less useful because (for example) Cmd-F is "Find" and Cmd-G is "Find Again" in many apps ... most troublingly, Cmd-W is now a global shortcut to instantly exit an app, totally killing the emulator when I am just trying to close a window (and of course, not saving anything). It appears to be possible for some iOS apps to override this behavior (Safari uses Cmd-W just to close a tab, for example).
Is it possible for Mini vMac to prevent iPadOS from grabbing these keypresses?

Thanks for the great work on this terrific tool!

[zydeco]

Hi, thanks for reporting this!
I rarely use my iPad with a keyboard so I wouldn't have noticed any time soon
I think I've fixed it in as much as I could in ceb0813:

• ⌘-w and most others will get passed to the emulated machine if it's running
• ⌘-q and ⌘-h don't seem interceptable, the app doesn't receive any key events for them, but ⌘-q doesn't do anything (or maybe it does in some other configuration?), and ⌘-h will take you to the home screen

[crutch68k]

Amazing, thanks so much for the overnight fix!  This will make my life more pleasant pretty much every day.On Feb 1, 2023, at 11:26 AM, Jesús A. Álvarez ***@***.***> wrote: Hi! Thanks for reporting this! I think I've fixed it in as much as I could in ceb0813: ⌘-w and most others will get passed to the emulated machine if it's running ⌘-q and ⌘-h don't seem interceptable, the app doesn't receive any key events for them, but ⌘-q doesn't do anything but ⌘-h will take you to the home screen —Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[appscaptain]

I'd say that cmd-h is possible to live more without, however cmd-w and cmd-q is used constantly when playing around on the Mac. 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. 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!