[mac4theblind] Re: Quick access to System Preferences isn't gone
- From: Sarah Alawami <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:04:30 -0700
except i tried all of them and got a ding. if you are meant to use this only
with desktop keyboards I'm saddened as I'm on a laptop.
Take care all.
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On Mar 16, 2011, at 4:31 PM, John Panarese wrote:
> 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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> Mac for the Blind
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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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