Comments on: Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts

By: Dee

Dee — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:46:44 +0000

..and what do you do if your Option key doesn’t work?

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 23 May 2007 12:13:12 +0000

Help Please,
I’m trying to eject a cd from 15″ book pro that had some problems completing
a firm were upgrade. The machine powers up, does not boot has a cd in it
I’m trying for a firmwere upgrade – have a cd and an external cd –
Have tried the cmd opt shift delete – any suggestions ?
Tom

By: Fani

Fani — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:49:46 +0000

There’s one more useful one they forgot –

Control-Command-Option-Eject = Immediately shutdown the Mac.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:16:35 +0000

Ooops..
Ctrl-Cmd-Eject = Reboot

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:12:25 +0000

Ctrl-Opt-Cmd-Eject = Shutdown
Ctrl-Opt-Eject = Reboot

By: jeff_goob

jeff_goob — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:49:38 +0000

These are all great, but how do you turn them off? Sometimes I want shift-F9 to be just that, like when I’m in a terminal emulator.
I found the keyboard shortcuts in preferences so I could turn off F9, 10 etc, but not shift-F9 etc.
Anybody help me here?
Mac OS x 10.4.9, Intel iMac
TIA

By: dirk

dirk — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:41:10 +0000

“dirk – Try pressing Left-Alt + Space.. should bring up a little menu. You can then to:
Left-alt + Space > n = minimize.”
···> could you explain that, please? i can’t reproduce any reaction … thx.

By: Noel

Noel — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:44:49 +0000

Thank you so much.. dictionary shortcut is fabulous..

By: macboy

macboy — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 21:14:40 +0000

hey this is a neat site!

another tip i figured out that u need to enable is scrolling
if you enable two fingered scrolling in the system prefrences its handy indeed!

mac4life

By: Nicholas Thompson

Nicholas Thompson — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 02:59:35 +0000

Jon – the apple site holds the answer…
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303575

“Tip: To perform a right-click action, hold the right Command key while tapping the trackpad button.”

There is also a program somewhere which you can run which allows you to Ctrl+Click as you would in OSX.

dirk – Try pressing Left-Alt + Space.. should bring up a little menu. You can then to:
Left-alt + Space > n = minimize.