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Still more handy key combos (10.3 only)
Authored by: Han Solo on Mar 12, '04 05:09:39PM
Ctrl-F1 turns on/off "full keyboard access." You'll need it on for the remaining key combinations.

Ctrl-F2 brings focus to the menu. You can then use arrow keys and first letters of menu commands to navigate, Enter or Return to "click", esc or the spacebar to cancel.

Ctrl-F3 brings focus to the dock. Use the arrow keys to navigate (the up arrow to get the pop-up menuette for most dock items), spacebar, Enter or Return to "click" and launch an app or bring a running app to the front. (Cool extra: when an app icon is selected in the dock this way, pressing "h" will hide the app; pressing "q" will quit it!)

And the big finale:

Ctrl-F4 cycles among the open windows of all apps. That is, you can interact with the Finder in a window-centric manner rather than the usual application-centric approach (such as with Alt-Tab). Sure, you can accomplish the same thing with Exposé, but this way takes less time and no mouse clicks. It's very handy when you need to transfer data among several apps.

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Still more handy key combos (10.3 only)
Authored by: Snidely Whiplash on Mar 12, '04 07:01:12PM

For Powerbook Users (Pismo500 here) just add the "fn" key before any of these commands - i.e. fn+ctrl+f1, other wise youle be changing the brightness and volume...



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