Hi Anouk, a radix wrote:
> Hello, i took my macbook pro to school today and it went well for > the most part, although apparently one of the fkeys or other keys in > the top row freezes the keyboard which i found out by accident. > I wonder though, i know there is the window chooser and the > application chooser but is there a command like contro ltab or > something to quickly and immediately switch between different > windows in one program? That would still be quicker then the window > user, You've already been given the window switching option of Command- (grave) accent that switches between all windows of the currently active application. The key may be in a different location on a non- English keyboard, but for me the accent key is at the far left, beside the "1" key and under the "Escape" key. If you turn on keyboard practice mode (VO-K to start, press escape to stop), you'll hear the names of each key announced when you press it. It sounds as though you pressed one of the Exposé keys (F9, F10 or F11) if you thought you froze the keyboard by pressing an F key. Exposé is a visually based window chooser -- kind of like using icon view mode instead of list view mode in Finder -- and I described it in another post that I made a few minutes ago. Just press the same key again to leave this mode. Exposé is waiting for you to select a window to switch to by clicking with your mouse. If you press the Exposé key again, it will return focus to your current window. (I wrote to accessibility suggesting that there should be a VoiceOver feature to easily disable Exposé, because I don't imagine that any visually impaired person will use this. The key assignments also conflicts with key mappings people might want to assign to Windows if they use Fusion. This is somewhat confusing under Snow Leopard, because on a laptop you may have set up the Exposé key to be Fn+F10 or it could be F10. If you go to the System Preferences Menu (VO-M, arrow down, press "s y", press enter) and go to the Keyboard and Mouse button (VO-I, for item chooser menu, press "K" to go to "Keyboard and Mouse" menu entry, press enter), press the button (VO-Space). In the "Keyboard & Mouse" window, VO-Right arrow to the "General" tab and make sure it is selected (press with VO-Space if needed). VO-Right arrow to the checkbox for "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys" When this option is selected, press the Fn key to use the special features printed on each key. You can use VO-Space to check or uncheck this box. If this box is checked, on a laptop with VoiceOver running you, the defaults are: Turn VoiceOver on and off with Command-F5 and you Mute volume with Fn+F10; F10 is the Exposé key to select from all Windows Decrease volume with Fn+F11; F11 is the Exposé key to show Desktop Increase volume with Fn+F12; F12 is the key to hide/show Dashboard If the box to use F keys as standard function keys is unchecked, you Mute volume with F10; Fn+F10 is the Exposé key to select from Application Windows Decrease volume with F11; Fn+F11 is the Exposé key to show Desktop Increase volume with F12; Fn+F12 is the key to hide/show Dashboard Here is a list of the F key actions for the newer keyboards (meaning MacBooks from November 2007 and later, MacBook Pros from February 2008 and later, the new Unibody MacBooks, MacBook Pros, and MacBook Airs) from the MacRumors guides: http://guides.macrumors.com/Keyboard_shortcuts <begin excerpt> F1 decrease brightness (command+F1 changes display mode, option+F1 brings up display prefs) F2 increase brightness (option+F2 brings up display prefs) F3 exposé (F3 shows all windows, control+F3 shows app windows, option +F3 brings up exposé prefs, command+F3 shows desktop) F4 dashboard (option+F4 brings up exposé prefs) F5 decrease keyboard brightness for backlit keyboards (option+F5 brings up keyboard prefs) F6 increase keyboard brightness for backlit keyboards (option+F6 brings up keyboard prefs) F7 media navigation backwards (like hitting back on Apple Remote) F8 media play/pause (like hitting play/pause on Apple Remote) F9 media navigation forwards (like hitting next on Apple Remote) F10 mute volume (option+F10 brings up sound prefs) F11 decrease volume (option+shift+F11 for incremental decrease, option +F11 brings up sound prefs) F12 increase volume (option+shift+F12 for incremental increase, option +F12 brings up sound prefs) <end excerpt> The media function keys (F7, F8, and F9) let you reverse, play/pause, and forward in various players (iTunes, VLC, DVD player, etc.) and control the playback even when that application is playing in the background, and another app has focus. On my MacBook I have the "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys" box checked, so I would adjust volume, brightness, etc. without first pressing the "Fn" key prefix, and I would also press the F7, F8, and F9 keys directly (without "Fn" prefix) to reverse, play/ pause, or forward search. If for some reason I wanted to run the Exposé "All windows" option from the F9 key (can't think why, smile), I would have to press Fn+F9. If the key to use all F1, etc. keys as standard function keys is unchecked, then you need to press Fn in combination with all the listed F key shortcuts to run those functions. Hope this hasn't been too confusing. Cheers, Esther --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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