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I have a new Apple Keyboard, up until recently pressing the F4 key used to activate Launchpad (Fn keys are set to do as the image on them) but mow it does nothing. I tried the keyboard with another mac and it worked as expected (pressing the F4 activated launchpad). How do I reset the settings on my mac so the F4 key works as I want it to?

PS. I tried going to System Prefs->Keyboard-> reset defaults with no luck.

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On System Prefs->Keyboard-> Keyboard Shortcuts you need to click on Launchpad & Dock on the left, then make sure "Show Launchpad" is checked.

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And Show Launchpad only needs to be checked, not assigned to any regular shortcut. It's clearly a bug with Lion because other media keys don't behave the same way. – Lauri Ranta Dec 26 '11 at 6:21
I tried to check the box but it asks for a key combo & if you dob't input anything it unchecks itself; – Samantha Catania Dec 26 '11 at 11:08
I copied the symbolichotkeys.plist from the mac that had the shortcuts working as expected and copied it to ~/Library/Preferences on the mac that wasn't working well and restarted and it fixed the problem – Samantha Catania Dec 26 '11 at 11:20

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