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I've got a TeamViewer session open. I can alt-tab to it, but then all hotkeys are captured by the TeamViewer session. This is great, but I'd like to be able to 'escape' back to the host without using the mouse, perhaps using some special meta shortcut. This question offers a solution using Windows RDP, but I the same key combinations don't seem to work in TeamViewer. Is there any solution for this?
cemulate
Posted 2016-05-18T15:40:43.743
Reputation: 921
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Ugly, but no mouse; tested in Windows 10 host, and Windows 10 client.
Suppose you have a tab open on your host, e.g. notepad (referred to as original-non-teamviewer-tab) while you are working in a teamviewer tab that controls your Windows 10 client:
ctrl+alt+delete
down
down
down
down
enter (switches back to host, opening Task Manager.)
alt+tab+tab (switches back to your original non-teamviewer-tab.)
alt+tab (switches back to Task Manager.)
alt+F4 (closes Task Manager and switches back to your original non-teamviewer-tab.)
If you are willing to accept task manager to remain as open tab you can reduce the minimal required number of sequential key presses from 10 to 8.
https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-alt-tab-on-teamviewer claims you can enable and disable Sending key combinations with scroll lock. That would reduce the amount of sequential keypresses to 2 in stead of 10. But I have not yet been unable to verify their solution.
Alternatively you could make an autohotkey script of the solution and map it to a single key press.
a.t.
Posted 2016-05-18T15:40:43.743
Reputation: 269
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Since its 2020 and still no HostKey solution on TeamViewer - below little Autohotkey snippet worked:
Tested with TeamViewer 15.1
; -------- ALT + `
; ----------- Minimize Active Window
!`::
WinMinimize, A
return
MynameisM
Posted 2016-05-18T15:40:43.743
Reputation: 11
Finally, a workable solution! Thank you! This has been bugging me for years! – Wizek – 2020-02-08T06:51:22.327
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this is what did it for me: go to teamviewer options -> remote control -> and disable "send key combinations"
Jaxx0rr
Posted 2016-05-18T15:40:43.743
Reputation: 101
Just to rule out some possible alternatives, are shortcuts that use the Windows key captured by the session as well? (Win + Down Arrow for instance) – panhandel – 2016-05-18T16:21:27.927
Yes, TeamViewer either sends key shortcuts or not, and selecting to send sends all of them, it appears. Programs such as Virtual Box will allow you to select a 'host key' that breaks you out. That's what I'm looking for here. – cemulate – 2016-05-18T16:31:25.900
Looks like Scroll Lock will enable/disable sending shortcuts to remote system, so you could use it to disable sending hotkeys, then alt+tab locally, eventually go back to the remote window and Scroll Lock again to re-enable hotkeys on remote. – panhandel – 2016-05-18T16:48:48.787
to panhandel, what do you mean about scroll lock working to do what the OP asks? I clicked it (both with and without the fn key my laptop keyboard had for that key), and it did NOT enable/disable Tv's sending of keys to the remote. Was so hopeful that it might. – charlie arehart – 2018-04-12T18:39:59.880
Like the OP, I would LOVE to find such a capability to "leave the teamviewer remote" and have shortcuts again work on the local machine. As a keyboard guy, I've missed this feature daily since leaving logmein (when it dropped free support), which DID offer such a key combination, ctrl+alt.) VirtualBox also offers it, in its "host" key (which defaults to the right control key). And before any helpful TV users might chime in, we are AWARE that there is the menu option to enable/disable sending of keys to the remote. We're wanting a keystroke toggle to do it, on demand, not disabling it entirely. – charlie arehart – 2018-04-12T18:43:14.623