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10.4: Avoid the 10.4.9 Eject key activation delay
Authored by: Spartacus on Mar 20, '07 09:35:49AM

I have the impression that this hint seems to work only because if you press Eject first, then you end up holding Eject for a longer time, and you have the impression that the dialogue appears more quickly after you press Control. But the total time for the dialogue to appear seems to be constant.



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10.4: Avoid the 10.4.9 Eject key activation delay
Authored by: Aman on Mar 20, '07 10:00:45AM

+1 for Spartacus' post.



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It's just a delay
Authored by: MJCube on Mar 20, '07 01:19:26PM

I completely agree with Spartacus. But despite the mistaken ideas in the hint, the simple info about the delay has made my day! Ever since I installed the System update I was worried we'd lost a keyboard shortcut that I use many times every day, and I found the explanation here first.

The delay on my 450MHz G4 Cube is only about 1/3 of a second, but that's enough to prevent actions with an accidental tap of the key. The order of keys pressed doesn't matter, which is actually nice. One just has to have the desired combo held down by the end of the delay.



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