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Improving the User Experience of Windows Applications Running on Mac
2 min readJul 29, 2019
In the last story, we have seen how to run Windows applications on Mac using the tool called Wine:
There are few annoyances with such application. The typical keyboard shortcuts are different than on Mac. For example, the typical copy & paste is ⌘+C and ⌘+P (⌘ = Command) in Mac applications but for Windows ones, it is Control+C and Control+P. The worst thing is the fact that ⌘+C means Alt+C in Windows and that can mean a different action in many applications (e.g. clear screen in QWS3270).
The second problem is that some fonts are not anti-aliased and look ugly.
This can be changed easily by few settings in the Wine Registry. The new settings are the following:
