Hi Mark and Others, M. Taylor wrote:
> Also, what is Exposay? I'm pasting in a post I made to the mac-access list a few months ago, and I'll add some comments about why you want to disable (or at least reassign) the Exposé keys (F9, F10, and F11) so you can use them freely in Fusion. I also described Exposé in part of a post to this list on "Rewinding and Fast forwarding in iTunes" -- submitted after this list moved to GoogleGroups, but before archiving at the Mail Archive site was enabled in February of this year. You can try to read that post at: http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries/msg/9477875096ee36fc? (Rewinding and Fast forwarding in iTunes [was Re: iTunes question]) (or run a Google search on "iTunes question Exposé macvisionaries rewinding" if the above link does not work). <begin excerpt of mac-access post> Exposé is a visual way of switching between active windows that is analogous to running VoiceOver's window chooser menu (VO-F2 twice). Instead of getting the results displayed within a list view, Exposé turns your entire screen into a kind of Finder window with each window displayed as a small thumbnail image as though you were using icon view mode. A sighted person who has many windows open simultaneously sees small versions of each window on the screen, with his current window highlighted, and can move his mouse cursor to quickly select the new one to switch to. As soon as a window is selected (by routing the cursor to the thumbnail of the desired window and clicking with mouse or trackpad key), Exposé shifts focus to that window. So it would be used in the same situations you would use the window chooser menu -- lots of windows being used simultaneously, and more efficient to query them instead of switching through them one by one with Command-accent -- but offers a visual mode of selection (icon view vs. list view). What happens when you press any of the Exposé shortcut keys -- F9, F10, or F11 -- is that the application is waiting for you to make a selection by clicking with your mouse on one of the thumbnail-view windows. If you simply press the same Exposé key again you get returned to your current window. The F9 key lets you select from all windows of all applications, while the F10 key lets you select from all windows of your current app. The third Exposé key, F11, lets you hide current windows so that sighted users can view the Desktop. A second press of F11 brings your current windows back to view. I can't think of any instance where a visually impaired Mac user would use Exposé, and VoiceOver should offer an option (and default setting) to disable all the Exposé shortcut keys, possibly along with the Dashboard widget shortcut key (F12). (I forgot to mention that there's another mode, where if you hold down the Shift key with the Exposé key the transition gets slowed down so that it's easier to follow your current window as it gets iconified in the Screen view. That's a real killer for VoiceOver users, because even if you think to press the key sequence again to reverse it and recover access to your window, nothing seems to happen because all the transitions are taking place in slow motion.) Just disable the keyboard shortcuts for the Exposé (and Dashboard) keys or at least reassign them to some other key sequences. On the newer keyboards they can interfere with your use of the media keys to control volume and forward/rewind action (if you forget to hold down the Fn key). 1. Bring up System Preferences (VO-M to menu bar, down arrow into Apple menu, press "s y" to go to "System Preferences", return) 2. Navigate (e.g., tab 4 times) to "Exposé & Spaces" and select (VO- Space) 3. Navigate (VO-right arrow) to the Exposé tab and select (VO-Space) 4. Navigate (VO-right arrow) to the keyboard shortcuts for Exposé. 5. Change the popup buttons for each shortcut to "-" where the hyphen key is to the right of the "0" at the top row of numbers. (VO-right arrow past the definitions for "All Windows", "Application Windows", and "Show Desktop" to the popup buttons, VO-space, then press "-" to change from default definitions of F9, F10, and F11; you can also redefine these to some other key combination by selecting "Right Shift" or "Right Command", etc.) 6. Navigate (VO-right arrow) to the shortcut for Dashboard and similarly disable (by pressing the hyphen key) or reassign the shortcut from F12 to some other key sequence on the popup button. 7. Close the window (Command-W) Hope this helps. Going to the Keyboard Shortcuts tab of the "Keyboard & Mouse" menu under System Preferences, and unchecking the boxes for the Exposé and Dashboard shortcut definitions in the table also works, but if you use the "Exposé & Spaces" menu you'll find all the key definitions together in one place, along with a short explanation of what the Exposé action does. You can also more easily reassign the shortcut definitions from the popup button selections. Note that some of the alternatives may not exist for a laptop keyboard -- I have no right control key, for instance. <end excerpt> OK, for people running Fusion, you can configure the Fusion preferences menu in the Keyboard & Mouse section to disable Mac keys and bypass default Mac shortcut assignments. If you try to use the F10 key in your Windows VM, for example, you might find that key overtaken by Leopard's definition. One way that people have coped with this is by selecting the Mac OS shortcuts tab in the Keyboard & Mouse pane of the Fusion preferences and unchecking the "enable Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts" checkbox to allow all keys to be grabbed by the virtual machine while input is being grabbed. To use the OS X keys again you must ungrab the VM's input. To grab, use Command+G and to ungrab, press Control+Command. If you delete the F10 Exposé key definition, you have no conflicting Mac shortcut assignment to bypass. HTH Cheers, Esther --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
