Hi Chris,
With regard to your attempts to reassign the keyboard shortcut for
Spotlight: Funny you should mention this. I just finished posting
about language inputs in Will's thread on eloquence. The reason
you're having trouble reassigning the keyboard shortcut for Spotlight
(Command-Space) is that prior to the introduction of Spotlight, this
combination was used to switch Input languages. If you VO-up arrow in
the table of keyboard shortcuts, you'll find that even though the
Input menu items (entries just above Spotlight) are unchecked, the
entry for "Select the previous input source" has the same shortcut
assignment as Spotlight does (Command-Space). This actually predates
the introduction of Spotlight.
Do you really need to change the assignment of Spotlight rather than
simply unchecking it? Remember, you (unlike your sighted classmates)
can use VO-m (three times) to get to Spotlight.
Cheers,
Esther
P.S. This bug caused Simon endless headaches when trying to reassign
"Select the previous input source" to "Option Shift Space" and change
"Select the next input source" to "Option Space". In the current
system, Leopard is much quirkier than Tiger was about this. I ended
up navigating to the shortcut for previous input with cursors
tracking, turning VoiceOver off, clicking with my physical mouse/
trackpad key twice, turning VoiceOver on, and then pressing Option-
Shift-Space to make the reassignment. It wasn't the same headache in
Tiger.
On Nov 11, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Chris Gilland wrote:
Hello.
Call me a little nutty, but, I do have my reasons for wanting to do
this, trust me.
I am trying to figure out when I go to
system prefs,
then keyboard and mouse,
then go to the keyboard shortcuts tab,
I interacted with the table, and went down to the shortcut to show
spotlight.
I am trying to change that from command space to option space.
Well, when I do what it says, with cursor tracking on, and I go over
to the collumn on that row that says shortcut: command+space, if I
double click, it's not letting me then hit option space and reassign
the keyboard shortcut.
All clicking is doing is checking and unchecking the on off checkbox
for that key. Yes, I made sure I was in the shortcut collumn. I
did that numerous time. I diddit both with cursor tracking on, as
well as off. and yes, when off, I did route my mouse with vo
command f5. So, I'm perplexed. How do I change this out? This is
really important. I need to know this for an online class I am
taking.
Chris.
