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Can I map mouse mouse buttons 3 and 4 to control the system volume?
Is it possible to map mouse buttons 3 and 4 to control system volume on a Mac? KeyRemap4Macbook doesn't seem to have the functionality, nor SizzlingKeys. I have them both. Is there some way to ...
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How can I change a command and cursor key bindings globally?
I want to assign "Go to previous word" command to cmd← and "Go to beginning of the line" command to alt←.
In short, I want to switch the actions of cmd← and alt←. Similarly for cmd→ and alt→ as well. ...
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How can I remap the play/pause key to Grooveshark?
I like to listen to Grooveshark while coding on my mbp. Since it's a website, every time I want to pause or continue I need to find the tab in my browser and click with the trackpad.
Is there a way ...
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Which application changed Mac OS X [Option]+[D] keybinding
When I press Option+D key in OS X, the current application loses focus. And if I press it again, the current window gets focus back.
How do I know which application bind that or how to avoid it. I ...
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Disable power button on 2015 MBP
Me and my friends like having a laugh together and as part of that we turn each other computers off and spam tabs till the computer crashes. Is thee a way how to disable the power button on my MBP ...
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Can you remap keys to only be used while using VMware?
I've just started using VMware, and I am admittedly a novice Mac user. Anyways, I installed Windows 7 on my iMac, and I've been playing this little indie game that requires the use of the insert and ...
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Modify the keyboard opt symbols
Is there any way to (or existing program which can) modify the keyboard symbols you get when holding down the option key?
I.e. I want to be able to modify these mappings:
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How can I use the keyword box to add keywords to a sequence of pictures without using the mouse?
I'm running Aperture 3.6 on Yosemite on a Mac Pro.
In aperture-tip-rapid-keywording Scott claims that command right-arrow moves the selected image to the next image, while leaving the cursor in the ...
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How to remap 'Shift & Up/Down arrow keys' to type actual up & down arrows?
I do a lot of typing in Evernote and I really need an 'up arrow' and 'down arrow' instead of typing 'increasing' or 'decreasing'... Ideally pressing Shift and 'Up arrow' would be the best way to get ...
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How to remap finder folder navigation shortcuts?
I don't like the default finder navigation shortcuts command-up, command-down because you need to press 2 buttons instead of 1. On windows, delete leads to previous folder ("back") and enter enters ...
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Cannot differentiate between LEFT ⌘ (0x37) and RIGHT ⌘ (0x36) keys
I would like to swap the right-⌘ key with the right-⌥ key.
KeyRemap4MacBook's EventViewer shows that Alt Gr key acts as the left-⌘ (Command_L in EventViewer), whereas I'd like to be the right-⌘ (...
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Defined Key Commands are Stuck
At one point, in my misguided youth, I set my left "fn" key to do something silly. "No worries, surely this can be quickly undone", I thought. But now I can't get it undone. I've gone to system ...
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Remap curved quotation marks in OS X?
So, the default key combinations to manually insert curved quotation marks (“” and ‘’) in OS X are:
option + [ for “
option + ] for ‘
option + shift + [ for ”
option + shift + ] for ’
Possibly due ...
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Conditionally map keys depending on the application being used
Here is my need on keyboard mapping:
When using Terminal, exchange the use of alt and cmd (map one to the other)
Otherwise, restore the default mapping on these two keys
How to achieve this?
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Binding Escape Sequences to Terminal Keys Produces Characters, Not Actions
I was using an iMac from 2009. I had upgraded it regularly, going up to (and including) Mavericks. When I first got that iMac, I fixed the keys in Terminal so Home and End would move the cursor to ...
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Macbook Air Caps Lock Delay in Windows 8
I have remapped Caps Lock to Backspace in Windows 8 using SharpKeys on my Macbook Air, but there is a noticeable delay that prevents me from quickly pressing the key to backspace. The Delete has no ...
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Changing the Key Modifiers (CMD<->CTRL) affects VM
I changed my ⌘CMD to behave like ⌃CTRL and ⌃CTRL to behave like a ⌘CMD, but this affects also my VirtualBox VM.
So I do ⌃CTRL+C for Copy in Mac, but I gotta do ⌘CMD+C to copy in Ubuntu...
That's ...
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OS X Messages.app, cmd+shift+w not working
On my new mac,
I have noticed in Messages.app, I can no longer purge message threads via cmd+shift+w like I could on my old computer. Every time I have to manually hit the "x" and delete them.
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Enter to open a file or a folder in Macintosh Explorer
Is it possible to configure Macintosh Explorer so that pressing ENTER opens a file or a folder (as we can do in Finder)?
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Use only one function key as standard function key [duplicate]
I'd like F2 to used as a standard function key. (ie, when I press F2 my screen won't brighten it will send an F2 to the application)
At the same time I'd like the rest of the function keys to do ...
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Adjusting Brightness, or executing any keypress, on remote computer via ssh
What are the options to target specific keys on a remote computer and execute the equivalent of virtually pressing them from the terminal via ssh (what would normally be a user pressing them)?
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Outlook - Keyboard shortcut for searching across all folders
Say I want to run searches like the following:
from: John
to: Emily
across all my Email folders (i.e. inbox, sent, etc.) in Outlook 2011.
How can I set up a keyboard shortcut so that Outlook takes ...
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Look up in dictionary
Is there a way to bind the chrome style look up in dictionary to a key binding? In case you don't know what function I'm talking about here's a screenshot:
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Why isn't KeyRemap4MacBook's "PageUp/PageDown to Left/Right (only in iPhoto)" setting working?
I have "PageUp/PageDown to Left/Right (only in iPhoto)" checked in KeyRemap4MacBook (version 7.5.0):
And I've confirmed that my (non-Kensington) wireless USB gadget shows a PageDown and PageUp in ...
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Define additional shortkey with the same effect like RETURN in Safari.app
I'm working with MacOS X 10.6.
I'd like to define a keyboard shortcut Ctrl-m, which does the same thing like RETURN does, without deactivating RETURN.
How can I do that in MacOS X 10.6. In the ...
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How to set the screen brighness keys to affect the external monitor?
I mean instead of affecting the brightness of the built in display of a Macbook.
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How can I prevent shift selection from expanding?
On Yosemite in current Chrome (and random other places, but let's try to just solve it in Chrome), if i selection some text (say the "sk differ" in "ask different"), then hold shift and press right ...
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TextMate : Keeping my KeyBindings after an update
I'm using TextMate 2 with some custom KeyBindings. I change them in /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/Resources/KeyBindings.dict. It works great, but everytime I update them app they get reset. (I ...
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Put whatever keybind for switching input language
I can't set CMD + Shift as a keybind for switching between input languages of the keyboard. I had to settle down with Ctrl + Space. Why does it allow me to set only some specific key binds?
Is there ...
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Mapping does not work with some characters in KeyRemap4Macbook
I want to map Option+Dot and Option+Comma to word-by-word movement in KeyRemap4Macbook. Option+Dot works but Option+Comma does not. Also using any other character such as W, V etc. instead of Comma ...
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How to quit 'screen' if you don't have \ on the keyboard
To quit screen you need to hit ctrl+a, ctrl+\. How do you do that if you don't have \ on the keyboard?
On my keyboard I need to hit shift+alt+7 to get a backslash - if I'm in an editor. Won't work ...
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How can I remap a stuck key to null?
I have a key that is stuck repeating and I want to disable it. Using KeyRemap4MacBook, what is the proper syntax for the private.xml to map a key to null?
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Reconfiguring Ctrl on a MacBook Pro's keyboard to another key
I have a problem with the left ⇧ and ctrl on my MacBook Pro (mid 2012).
I can use the right ⇧ but since there's only one ctrl, I was wondering because there are two ⌥ buttons and two ⌘ buttons, if I ...
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Are there any methods for listing all current keyboard shortcuts a system recognizes? [duplicate]
I've been spending some time with tools like BetterTouchTool, Hammerspoon, Alfred, etc. and I've found different uses for each. However I'm having a hard time keeping everything straight, particularly ...
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Remap the 'UpperCase' key [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I set caps lock to a more complex keystroke?
I lost the tab key on my macbook and since i rarely use the uppercase key i'm wondering if it is possibe to use it instead ...
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Change symbols with alt modifer
so this has probably been asked, but I have not exactly been able to figure it out. I was just wondering if it is possible to change what the alternate characters are on my keyboard. I have osx 10.9 ...
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Make Emacs-style shortcuts behave differently than arrow keys.
This is a bit of a weird question, I'll admit, but this is something that really annoys me. I have come to rely on the Emacs shortcuts (mainly ctrl ^+A, ctrl ^+E, ctrl ^+B, and ctrl ^+F) and the ...
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Change Modifier Key While Application is frontmost
What I'm trying to accomplish is to intercept or change Command and replace it with Control for use while another application is running and frontmost.
Is there a way to temporarily change modifier ...
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How can I remap keys on a headless mac?
At the moment I'm remotely accessing my mac via logmein. I'm trying to remap Command to Control via system preferences. However every time I try to do this it keeps resetting to the default. As ...
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Switch to Desktop shortcut bug (desktop 2 and desktop 3 are mixed)
On my OS X 10.8.2 (12C54) I use more desktops (4). I've mapped the keyboard shortcuts cmd+{1,2,3,4} to switch to dekstop {1,2,3,4}. However the second and third are mixed up. If I use cmd+2 it ...
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How to map PageDown to Option?
I have not been able to figure out how to map PageDown to Option. I have KeyRemap4MacBook installed, but the options they have in the "Change Key" pane don't allow me to do this.
How can I map ...
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OSX app to notify me when I could have used a KB shortcut instead?
I started using a MBA for my work machine about a year ago. I'm still not really able to remember the typical keyboard shortcuts, and tend to do things the "long way". For example, if I want to access ...
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How to allow OPT and # simultaneously in terminal [duplicate]
My (UK) MacBook Air keyboard doesn't have # marked. It has ± and §, which I have never used, but it doesn't have #, which is an extremely common character in computer code. Instead, I have to use the ...