[mac4theblind] Re: Quick access to System Preferences isn't gone
- From: John Panarese <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:31:55 -0400
It looks like these are keyboard shortcuts that open specific areas of
system preferences. Instead of doing so from Finder and then either searching
for it or going to it once you have system prefs open, there are OSX keyboard
shortcuts that will open the specific part of system prefs they are related to.
Take Care
John D. Panarese
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On Mar 16, 2011, at 7:25 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
> Here is the hint in full sort of. It confuses me a bit as I'm on a laptop.
> Can someone sheed some light for this 1 year old mac user?
>
> Quick access to System Preferences isn't gone
>
> You can open several frequently used System Preferences directly in 10.5 and
> 10.6 with a simple keyboard shortcut.
>
> If you have an Apple keyboard (or a third party one with similarly branded
> function keys) you can bring up various system preference panels without
> using your mouse at all.
>
> Simply hold down the Option key combined with one of the Apple-branded
> function keys to bring up the related preference panel. So Option+F1 or
> Option+F2 will bring up Displays.
>
> On the newer keyboards Apple changed the layout of a few of these function
> keys so they could include iTunes control keys; Option+ those f-keys used to
> bring up iTunes (under 10.5 and maybe the early versions of 10.6?) but that
> does nothing now.
>
> Option+ any of the volume keys will bring up the Sound System Pref, and
> Option+ any of the Exposé function keys will bring up the Exposé/Spaces
> System Pref.
>
> http://bit.ly/hcYK79
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