Hi all,
Recently purchased a new Air with Lion and wasn't long till I stumbled upon the good ol' # key problem.
The problem is when you press ALT + 3 on Lion it switches you to Desktop 3 in Mission Control. Or if you don't have Desktop 3 in Mission Control, it does nothing.
Viewing the keyboard viewer though you can still see the # key mapped to ALT + 3.
The trick is to open Mission Control and make 4 Desktops, even if you don't want to use them I'm sorry but you'll need to leave them open.
Then go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts
Select Mission Control and then untick Mission Control in the right hand side. You can leave 'Move left/right a space' with Option plus <-/-> arrows, but I've just taken it off completely, might as well swipe with the trackpad.
Now with Switch to Desktop ALT/1234 unticked close System Preferences. Next time you press ALT + ¡#¢ you'll get those symbols in their place.
If you don't have 4 Desktops open in Mission Control, you will not see the option to untick all the keyboard shortcuts and only the first 2 will work.
I tried searching but couldn't see anyone else who solved this so apologies for duplicating.
Recently purchased a new Air with Lion and wasn't long till I stumbled upon the good ol' # key problem.
The problem is when you press ALT + 3 on Lion it switches you to Desktop 3 in Mission Control. Or if you don't have Desktop 3 in Mission Control, it does nothing.
Viewing the keyboard viewer though you can still see the # key mapped to ALT + 3.
The trick is to open Mission Control and make 4 Desktops, even if you don't want to use them I'm sorry but you'll need to leave them open.
Then go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts
Select Mission Control and then untick Mission Control in the right hand side. You can leave 'Move left/right a space' with Option plus <-/-> arrows, but I've just taken it off completely, might as well swipe with the trackpad.
Now with Switch to Desktop ALT/1234 unticked close System Preferences. Next time you press ALT + ¡#¢ you'll get those symbols in their place.
If you don't have 4 Desktops open in Mission Control, you will not see the option to untick all the keyboard shortcuts and only the first 2 will work.
I tried searching but couldn't see anyone else who solved this so apologies for duplicating.