An external keyboard is what I use when working on my iPad.) (By the way, has anyone at Apple read the text of this option carefully? Why would my MacBook Air’s keyboard be considered external? Even on an iMac or Mac Pro, I wouldn’t think of the keyboard that comes with the computer as external. So this meant I had to do what I was hoping to avoid: turn on the dreaded “Use F1, F2, etc. I know it sounds silly, but the added work of arranging my left hand to press more than one key often made my right hand drop what it was dragging. There’s a certain “pat your head while you rub your belly” aspect to using a three-finger keyboard combination with one hand while dragging with the other. For a couple of weeks, I had Show Desktop mapped to ⌥⌘D, but it never felt right. And it’s become such a regular part of how I use a Mac that I was afraid I couldn’t retrain myself to use anything else. Mapping the Show Desktop toggle to F5 gave me that simple way. The Desktop is a convenient spot to save temporary files, and dragging them to and from the Desktop is most easily done when you have a simple way to show and hide all your windows while in the middle of a drag. And for at least a decade, I had mapped one of them, F5, to the Show Desktop action. Next post Previous post A keyboard experimentĪs soon as I unboxed my new MacBook Air, I knew there’d be one problem I’d have to get around: Apple had assigned a special action to every function key.Įvery Mac keyboard I’d used before this one had some empty function keys in the middle of the row.
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