A physical device with buttons that allow characters to be entered
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Is there a way to add shortcuts to open a particular folder in Save Dialogs and Finder Windows?
I know that when you're saving or opening a file ⌘ shift D shoots you to the Desktop folder, and pressing ⌘ shift D whilst using finder shoots you to the desktop folder as well.
Is there a way to ...
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How to disable visual display of modifier keys?
Somehow I have gotten my Mac Mini into a state where every time I press a modifier key - shift, option, command or control - it shows an image of the symbol of the modifier key around the upper right ...
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What is OS X alternative to Windows/Ubuntu hotkeys ⌘+1, ⌘+2 etc to start apps from the Dock?
On Windows and Ubuntu I can use ⌘+1 to start the first app in the Dock, ⌘+2 to start the second app in the Dock, etc. How can I achieve same effect in OS X? Is it some built-in functionality or ...
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How do I completely disable automatic keyboard backlighting on Macbook Pro with OSX Lion?
I have the system pref "Automatically illuminate the keyboard in low light" disabled. However, when I wake the computer from sleep and the login prompt appears, the keyboard backlight turns on. ...
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Wireless Keyboard disconnects
I am having a little trouble with my wireless keyboard.
In the past 3 weeks it has disconnected 3 times and then reconnected after a few moments. The Magic Mouse is working fine alongside it, and the ...
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Is there an app that allows me to monitor time spent using an application?
Is there a tool that allows you to monitor the amount of time spent actively interacting with an application? This would be useful for development work to get an idea of just how long projects take.
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Can I change some but not all Apple keyboard function keys (dim vs F1, bright vs F2)?
I want to override F1 and F2 behavior, since I have external display and Mac can't control display's brightness. The rest of the keys should retain their non Fx
I know about "Use all F1-F12 keys as ...
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1answer
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Is there a way to make my MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard hibernate with a keyboard shortcut?
Is there a way to hibernate at all?
I know if the battery dies when it's sleeping it hibernates, but is there a way to go directly to hibernate with a keyboard shortcut?
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OS X Lion suppresses user's settings for the keyboard backlight
Recently I've upgraded to Lion and in general I'm not satisfied with its performance, but what's really annoying is that the login screen always sets the keyboard backlight to the max (even when I set ...
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How can I make Apple menu shortcut keys work more like Windows?
I recently converted from Windows to Mac, but one thing that I really liked on Windows was how easy it was to traverse the menu bar and the associated submenus with the keys. Effectively, I would ...
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Equivalent to alt-. in terminal
I am curious as to whether there is an equivalent to the Alt-. command on Mac. On my computer it inserts the following character: ≥, instead of showing the preceding lines final parameter.
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How can I assign different characters to different keyboard shortcuts on Mac?
I am using Macbook Air with OS 10.8.2. I bought my MAC from the US, and then moved to another country. Therefore, I had to change my keyboard language.
The problem is the keyboard layout is not the ...
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How to use your keyboard layout on Parallels Desktop?
I'm using Parallels Desktop to play a game, but it's annoying that the keyboard layout is completely different from the one I configured for OSX. How can I use the same keyboard layout for both?
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Internal keyboard QWERTY; External Keyboard Dvorak
Is there a way to configure a MacBook Air running Lion (10.7.1) to recognize the internal keyboard as QWERTY, but to attach an external keyboard configured to use the Dvorak configuration?
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full wireless keyboard for iMac [closed]
Are you aware of any full (qwertzu, with numpad, apple keys, preferably german layout) wireless keyboard that works well with the (latest gen) iMac and resembles the iMac design.
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Can I change the behavior of the Home and End keys on an Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad?
I just bought an "Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad", then I connected it to my Macbook Pro running Lion.
But the home and end key under the F14 key doesn't work as I expected. Say in "Pages", the ...
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OS X Terminal equivalent of Ctrl+Left / Ctrl+Right
In Windows and Linux I could always hit ctrl+← or ctrl+→ to skip a word to the left or right in the terminal. In text editors it seems that ⌥+←/→ works, but no dice ...
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Command+right/left stopped working
On a couple occasions since I installed Lion, the keyboard shortcuts ⌘+→ and ⌘+← have stopped working to navigate to the beginning/end of a line inside text fields and such. Any ideas what's going ...
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How can I show typing keyboard in record screen
When I record the screen on a Mac, how can I show keyboard typing in the same image (as shown below)?
Is there particular screen recording software or settings that will do this?
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Can I turn off the screen with a keyboard shortcut?
One of the first customizations I make in Windows is to install WinBubble, an awesome piece of software that lets me add an option the the right-click menu of the desktop: 'Turn Off Monitor.' It's ...
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What is the function of the power button on the Apple Wireless Keyboard?
What does the power button on the Apple Wireless Keyboard do? When it is paired to a MacBook in clamshell mode, does pushing the power button put the MacBook to sleep, wake it up, or have some other ...
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Can I use a PC/Mac keyboard as a Bluetooth keyboard for iPhone?
I'm wondering about the feasibility of using my iMac's built-in bluetooth as a source for keyboard input to my iphone.
There are times I want to type longer messages in my iphone, i keep a bluetooth ...
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Why does the enter/return key rename a file/folder, instead of opening it? [closed]
Is there some sort of known logic behind Apple's choice to make the enter key rename a file/folder, rather than open it as is standard on Windows and Linux?
For those of you coming here for the ...
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Keyboard shortcut for toggling between Fn and F keys
Is there a keyboard shortcut for toggling between Function and classic F keys?
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Replacing shortcuts that use the eject key on MacBook Air lacking such a physical key?
I'm getting used to working on a MacBook Air this week and find myself wondering if I can systematically change the default system shortcuts to use the power button as a direct substitution for the ...
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Does Notification Center have keyboard shortcuts?
Are there any keyboard shortcuts for controlling Notification Center on OS X Mountain Lion? Of particular interest is a shortcut equivalent of the Click to Tweet button that appears at the top of ...
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Can you pair Mac AND iPad with same Apple Wireless Keyboard?
Can you pair both a Mac and an iPad 2 with the same Apple wireless keyboard, but not at the same time? Or do you have to un-pair one, and then pair it with the other?
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How to remove caps lock delay on Apple MacBook Pro aluminum keyboard
Apple's MacBook Pro has a slight delay on the caps lock key.
That is, the caps lock key has to be held down slightly longer
than normal to register the key press required to engage the caps ...
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Is there a better way to shutdown/restart OSX?
Whenever I want to shutdown/restart OSX I click on the menu, select shutdown, and then click the box for not saving the session, and then click OK. Then there's always at least one program that ...
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Is there a keyboard shortcut to cycle between windows in the current space?
When I have two applications open side-by-side in the same space, I'd like to be able to swap between them quickly with the keyboard.
I can use Command+Tab, but often I land on an application in a ...
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Keyboard shortcut for switching between open windows [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Best app to switch between all open windows (alternatives to Witch)
On Windows and Linux one can switch between open windows by pressing Alt+Tab. On the Mac pressing ...
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How can I download something with display turned off (Ctrl+Shift+Eject)?
In Lion I could just press Ctrl+Shift+Eject to turn off display on iMac.
In Mountain Lion it looks like this shortcut turns off whole computer. It looks like sleeping mode. So my downloads stop when ...
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Is there a way to access the menubar icons using the keyboard?
I know how to use the menu items using only the keyboard. Is there anyway I can access the icons in the top right as well?
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Terminal shortcut keys
I've recently immigrated from Ubuntu to Mac OSX Snow Leopard. I use the terminal (iterm2) extensively, and I am a great fan of shortcut keys.
The standard shortcut keys (which work in any GUI ...
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How does one type an “É” (capital e acute) in the French keyboard layout in Mac OS X?
I've searched the web for a method to type an "É" character with a french keyboard layout in firefox.
It appears I'm supposed to type ⌥+E, and then ⇧+E to achieve this, but as soon as I ...
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How can I rename a song in iTunes with a keyboard shortcut?
I can hit the up and down arrows to navigate a playlist in iTunes 10.5 but hitting F2 doesn't allow me to rename a song. I have to grab the mouse and do a finicky click, wait, click to highlight the ...
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Why my application icons wiggle when I press ALT key in Launchpad?
I tried Launchpad first time today and went through the common modifier keys & their combinations to see if some hidden options appear.
When I pressed ⌥ ALT all the apps started wiggling. What ...
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Change search Google in Safari to use Firefox
Cmd+Shift+L searches for the selected text in Google using Safari. Can I change this to use Firefox instead?
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Toggle the keyboard language by *holding* a button?
On my Linux computer, my keyboard switches from English to Serbian when I hold the Caps Lock key. For example, to write č all I have to do is hold Caps Lock, and press the key where č is on the ...
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How to type in the tilde character '~' with an apple international keyboard?
I am a French developer, used to the French keyboard layout. Being a developer, I invested recently in an Apple international keyboard.
Having a french keyboard, typing in the tilde '~' character was ...
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How can you customize the keyboard layout / shortcuts?
I've recently migrated from Ubuntu to Mac, but one of the features that I'm lacking most is the keyboard layout for alternative languages. I don't like to switch keyboard layouts all the time, yet at ...
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Where is the F13 button on my MacBook Pro?
I was looking through the System Preferences for Mission Control in OS X Lion (10.7). One of the options had F13 in it but I couldn't find it anywhere.
Where is it?
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Re-enabling virtual iPad keyboard with paired Bluetooth keyboard
I have an Apple bluetooth keyboard (A1255) paired to my iPad. Pressing the keyboard's eject button lets me hide or display the virtual keyboard. It makes sense to hide it with the external keyboard ...
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How do I maximize window after I've minimize them?
I'm a new Mac user and I regularly minimize windows using the Command + M shortcut. Is there a keyboard shortcut to restore these windows?
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How to mute the microphone on Key-Down and unmute it on Key-Up?
What I would like to have is:
By default the microphone should be muted
When CapsLock is Down the microphone should unmute
When CapsLock is Up the microphone should mute
(Basically convert my ...
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Toggle “Use all F1, F2 as standard keys” via script
I toggle the "Use all F1, F2 as standard keys" setting very often and would like to automate it via a script (or a keyboard shortcut). Is it possible? I've tried to Google the right arguments for ...
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How can I tell exactly what keys are being pressed on the Mac?
At the moment I'm trying to remote control my machine and command and ctrl do not seem to be working properly. Is there some type of 'keyboard sniffer' functionality so I can see exactly what is and ...
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How to make a custom keyboard layout be recognized as Latin so I can remove the US default layout?
I have a custom keyboard layout which MacOSX doesn't recognize as Latin, so it doesn't allow me to remove the US default layout.
I'd like to know what would make my layout be recognized as Latin.
Is ...
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How to disable accentuated char suggestion on long click on mac?
When pushing a key for a long time, you expect to print a lot of times the same char.
Instead of that, I now have a popup suggesting all accentuated chars.
How to disable that and come back to a ...
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Change keyboard shortcut for {} and [] in German keyboard layout
I'm new to Mac and using a Macbook Air with Lion and a German keyboard. From my PC I'm used to other keyboard shortcuts for {} and [].
Currently it's alt + 8,9 for {} and alt + 5,6 for []. Can I ...
