Can't adjust volume or brightness on top row

[cheeryble]

In tinkering with keyboard shortcuts I at the same time must have also done something affecting the top row on the keyboard (with all the "F"s).
F11 to disappear the windows and F9 to show them all still work, but the volume and brightness controls no longer work.
Can you help me please?
thanx John

 

[richard.mac]

what kind of keyboard do you have? are the volume controls labelled on F10-F12, F3-F5 or F17-F19?

 

[cheeryble]

what kind of keyboard do you have? are the volume controls labelled on F10-F12, F3-F5 or F17-F19?

F3-F5

I just tried restoring the defaults on the keyboard shortcuts but it didn't change it.
Also i made sure the box is ticked in System Prefs> keyboard it WAS already ticked.

Thanx

 

[richard.mac]

if you ticked this option then you have to use fn+volume keys. untick it if you want to use the keys without using the fn key.

 

[cheeryble]

if you ticked this option then you have to use fn+volume keys. untick it if you want to use the keys without using the fn key.

That's done it Rich the Apple shop here had it the wrong way round!

BTW how did you get that rather nice pic of the Sys Pref window? Did the shading come with it or is there some special way?

 

[richard.mac]

just press command-shift-4 then press space and click a window. the shading is added in Leopard.

 

[goose1873]

Once you take the pic using that method, how do you paste...Command V doesn't work...sorry, new to mac os

 

[SthrnCmfrtr]

Once you take the pic using that method, how do you paste...Command V doesn't work...sorry, new to mac os

It's saved to the desktop as "Picture #.png".

 

[goose1873]

cool...thanks

 

[cheeryble]

just press command-shift-4 then press space and click a window. the shading is added in Leopard.

Thankyou Rich
I haven't upgraded to Leopard yet as I only have 1 gig RAM. You think it's worth upgrading?....and is the 1 gig enough?

BTW how did you add the red circle in your snapshot?

thanx again John

 

[richard.mac]

Thankyou Rich
I haven't upgraded to Leopard yet as I only have 1 gig RAM. You think it's worth upgrading?....and is the 1 gig enough?

BTW how did you add the red circle in your snapshot?

thanx again John

i used skitch is a great app. you can also use Preview in Leopard. dont upgrade to Leopard just for the shading effects in screenshots! :shock: haha

1 gig will be fine but youll notice that Leopard will use a little more RAM than Tiger. the active system memory (yellow section in activity monitor) is a little more for me in Leopard than Tiger.