Keyboard shortcuts

[opusthe2nd]

Was playing around with keyboard shortcuts. For example, command-F5 is supposed to turn on speech recognition....it doesnt. What it does is increases the speaker volume, just like F4 reduces it. Whether you press the command key or not, this is what those 2 keys do. Contrary to what is supposed to happen.

Whats with this, and what am I missing?

 

[khisayruou]

Was playing around with keyboard shortcuts. For example, command-F5 is supposed to turn on speech recognition....it doesnt. What it does is increases the speaker volume, just like F4 reduces it. Whether you press the command key or not, this is what those 2 keys do. Contrary to what is supposed to happen.

Whats with this, and what am I missing?

Command-F5 turns on VoiceOver under Universal Access.
Since F5 is volume up, if you want it to be a function key...then you also need to hit the fn key. So fn-command-f5 will get the job done.

 

[alangyssler]

Command+Shift+A = Applications folder
Command+Shift+U = Utilities folder
Command+Enter (when in Spotlight) = Launch top hit
Command+Option+8 = Turn on display zoom (Command+Option & +/- to zoom in and out)
Command+Option+Ctrl+8 = Invert screen colors
Command+Option+Eject = Sleep
Command+Option+Ctrl = Shutdown
Command+Ctrl = Restart

Then there's all the "shift+" ones that slow everything down... but those go without saying.

Them are all I can think of right now.

 

[Dr. Dastardly]

Seeing that its a Powerbook the F# keys have to pull double duty. Such as screen brightness and volume controls. Thats why anytime you see something that says command + F5 you have to translate to the Powerbook as fn + command + f5.

 

[slimflem]

Command+Option+Ctrl+8 = Invert screen colors

OMG! That is so easy to read in a completely dark room. Wow.

 

[simie]

http://www.macosxpowertools.com/content/keyboard.html

 

[Will Cheyney]

And there a lot more besides. Seriously, there are so many shortcut for the Mac OS.

 

[InfiniteLoop1]

Command+Option+Ctrl+8 = Invert screen colors

Woh that is weird never knew you could do that!!

 

[Will Cheyney]

I made a thread a week or so ago, where people posted their favourite Mac OS X shortcuts/tips.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/161137/
There's some cool ones!

Try this, cmd, option, 8 (to toggle 'zoom' mode), then, cmd, option, + (to zoom) and cmd, option, - (to zoom out).

 

[inlimbo]

This is a little off topic...

On my PC keyboards u have a 'backspace' key and a 'delete' key. With backspace you place the curser to the right of the letter you wish to delete. With the 'delete' key u place the cursor to the left of the letter you wish to delete. On my PB I only have a 'delete' key which works like a backspace. Is there a keyboard combination for the PC keyboard 'delete' equivalent?

 

[inlimbo]

Oh yeah and how do you cycle through your tabs in Safari? In Firefox you use Ctrl+Tab. What is the equivalent in Safari? I couldn't find it in Help.

 

[kewpid]

This is a little off topic...

On my PC keyboards u have a 'backspace' key and a 'delete' key. With backspace you place the curser to the right of the letter you wish to delete. With the 'delete' key u place the cursor to the left of the letter you wish to delete. On my PB I only have a 'delete' key which works like a backspace. Is there a keyboard combination for the PC keyboard 'delete' equivalent?

fn + delete

Oh yeah and how do you cycle through your tabs in Safari? In Firefox you use Ctrl+Tab. What is the equivalent in Safari? I couldn't find it in Help.

Cmd + Shift + ] (or [ for the other direction)

 

[inlimbo]

Thanks kewpid!

 

[opusthe2nd]

Got it! I am aware of most of the other ones, this just had me stumped.

Thanks.......

 

[Project]

is there a way to have global hotkeys - like say, to add a new event in iCal I could just press a button combination regardless of what app I was in?

 

[mileslong]

i cant figure out ot find a way to use a keyboard command that does the same thing as right clicking a mouse to save an image.