You can enable certain settings that affect keyboard behavior for certain key combinations.

Chrome supports certain key presses and key combinations in the local operating system and the remote system. For other keys and key combinations when the user connects using a Windows keyboard, certain key combinations are not supported in the remote operating system. However, the local system does process the input. You can enable settings to change the behavior.

Without certain settings, the following keys and keyboard combinations often do not work in remote desktops.
  • Windows key combinations.
  • Alt+Backspace.
    Important: To input Ctrl+Alt+Del, point to the top of the remote desktop window until the menu bar appears and click the Send Ctrl+Alt+Delete button.
  • Caps Lock+modifier_key (such as Alt or Shift).
To enable the following shortcuts in Windows remote desktops, activate the corresponding shortcut mappings as described in Configure Keyboard Shortcut Mappings.
  • Alt+Backspace (simulates pressing the Delete key or Ctrl+Z in desktops)
  • Ctrl+Search (simulates pressing the Windows key in desktops)

Windows key combinations do not work for published applications. These key combinations do work for Windows Server 2019/2022 and Windows 11 remote desktops and published desktops.

Some key combinations that work in remote desktops that have a Windows 8.x or Windows Server 2012 R2 operating system do not work in remote desktops that have a Windows 7 or Windows 10 operating system.

Note: For a list of the default keyboard shortcuts for your client OS, refer to your client OS documentation. For a list of the default Windows shortcuts, refer to the Microsoft Windows website ( http://windows.microsoft.com).