Re: Weird Problems with "Keyboard Shortcuts"

In <mirsky-9EF56B.11490501062008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Mirsky wrote:
Hi. I am running OS 10.5.3. I want to use the "Keyboard Shortcuts"
controls in the "Keyboard & Mouse" System Preferences to change the
key for "Hide Others" in all applications to Function Key 16.

Here is what I did: In the "Keyboard Shortcuts" window, I pressed the
plus sign to add a new Shortcut. That brought up a little window. In
the window, I chose "All Applications" from the Application pull-down
menu. Then I entered "Hide Others" in the Menu Title text box. Then
I hit my Function 16 button in the Keyboard Shortcut text box ? and
"F16" appeared in it.

I closed the System Preferences window. Then I went to the Finder. I
pulled down the "Finder" menu and next to "Hide Others" it showed the
key command of "F". Just plain "F." When I hit "F", it did hide the
other windows. I tried "F" in other programs, and it worked as well.

I have no idea why, though, that it's using "F" and not Function Key
16. I tried it with another function key and got the same result.

The other odd thing is that I re-opened System Preferences and looked
at the Shortcut I had added. Instead of showing F, it showed the
number 6. When I had tried Function Key 17, it showed the number 7.
However, the shortcut in shown in the FInder and other applications
still said F.

The whole behavior of "Keyboard Shortcuts" seems very odd to me. I
don't think I have seen anything as buggy or dysfunctional in any
version of Mac OS 10 that I have used.

If someone knows what is going wrong, please let me know. I don't
think, though, that I have done anything wrong. But maybe there is
some other software affecting the shortcuts. I really don't know.
Any thoughts/advice are appreciated.

Thanks,

Mirsky

Congratulations! You've found a bug. I'm running 10.5.2 still and it
behaves the same way.

After a bit of experimentation I found that:
You can create a new keyboard shortcut using F1 to F15, but F16 gets
changed to F.
Trying to change an existing user-created shortcut to F16 just gives an
error beep.
F16 works fine for system-wide shortcuts i.e. the ones which don't rely
on application menus.

--
Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand -> http://roger.geek.nz
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