Re: Keyboard Shortcuts changed?

In article <JayZa-BB442E.07593813012009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
JayZa <JayZa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <jollyroger-2AF5F9.15152612012009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jolly Roger <jollyroger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <JayZa-28D9E1.02202812012009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
JayZa <JayZa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

JayZa <JayZa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Suddenly some of my keyboard shortcuts don't work. Control_F2 which
usually moves focus to the menu bar now is Select All (Command_A). I
used to have shortcuts for Sleep and Restart that worked perfectly
for
months - now none of them work. My Sleep shortcut now closes windows
(Command_W). I deleted the Universal Access and Finder plists but it
didn't make any difference.

Jolly Roger <jollyroger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Does this last through a logout?

Oh yeah. Sorry to say.

Have you tried creating a brand-new Mac OS X user account to see if the
problem is local to one user account?

Well that was interesting. I created a brand new account. Things
worked. Sys Prefs for the keyboard were stock. I removed all the
checked ones except for 2 to minimize chances of conflicts. I tried
various things and all seemed to work fine. Then I went back to my
original account and all seems to be fine as well. The shortcuts I
had added in the KB/Mouse, Sys Prefs were gone. I added just one more
and will be testing it over the next few hours.

Shouldn't Sys Prefs, KB/Mouse, Shortcuts have been the same once I had
returned? (Not that I'm complaining now as everything is working but
I'd like to understand the process.) Its hard to know where the reach
of a system user extends. I did notice I couldn't delete things when
in the new user so that is good.

Some system preferences are shared amongst all user accounts. I suppose
keyboard shortcuts may be shared, and accessing them from a brand-new
user account may have effectively reset them, removing the corruption,
but I've always thought keyboard shortcuts would be a user-specific
setting.

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