A possible fix for non-functioning function key shortcuts

Apr 10, '09 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

I've had a few occasions where most Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts suddenly stopped working (e.g., F9 for Exposé, F12 for Dashboard). Strangely, Copy, Paste, and Cut continued to work. The only solution seemed to be a reboot.

I discovered the cause yesterday: Dashboard. There must be some circumstance where it must not properly release the keyboard grab. Fortunately, I also discovered that explicitly invoking Dashboard (by double-clicking on Dashboard in Applications) cures the problem.

[robg adds: I haven't experienced this problem myself, but I'd be curious to know if others have, and if this fix works.]

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