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Old 27-10-2007, 09:39 AM
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Spaces on F8?!
Weirdly Spaces is set to F8.

But on the new Keyboards F8 is marked as Play/Pause.

Why would Apple do this I wonder? Why not make it F6 or something?

I'm a stickler for consistency and order - I've probably got mild Autism

Drive's me nuts. I've put Spaces on F6 for now.

Which is no good on the Macbook keyboard which is Num-Lock...

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Old 27-10-2007, 09:42 AM
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I chucked mine up on F19 as I have the new KB, not all apps recognise the F16-19 anyway, so figured I should use them.
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Old 27-10-2007, 09:44 AM
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I set mine to F5 but I think I'm going to change it to F19 now
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Old 27-10-2007, 10:12 AM
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mines F6 with spotlight as F5
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Old 27-10-2007, 10:15 AM
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you do know that, on the new keyboard the Fn key toggles between F-Key mode and the new key assignments such as sound, brightness, pause/play?

If you use the new assignments by default then Fn-F8 is going to get you plain old F8.

If you have told sys preferences to use the F-keys normally then Fn-F8 will get you play/pause. And so on.
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Old 27-10-2007, 10:20 AM
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Slightly off-topic but how do I get F7 on my MBP's keyboard to activate Exposé's "All Windows". I tried setting it as the key in System Preferences -> Mouse and Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts, but only makes Fn-F7 work for it. It won't accept Fn-F7 as a valid key either

This makes no sense to me as F7 doesn't control any hardware thing, as Fn-F7 or just on its own. And F11 and F12 work fine whilst all the other things control volume and brightness (screen/keyboard).
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Old 27-10-2007, 11:22 AM
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you do know that, on the new keyboard the Fn key toggles between F-Key mode and the new key assignments such as sound, brightness, pause/play?

Gawd Blimey Guvnor! I've only just noticed the fn key!

I'd been looking for one in the same place as on my MacBook. But it's over on the home-pad section thingy.

Still - doing fn-F8 is a bit of a contortion for my fingers.

I might stick it all the way over on F19

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Old 27-10-2007, 11:36 AM
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I've made it the middle mouse button (using SteerMouse) but also, press the Expose keys while you're in spaces for some amusement.
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Old 27-10-2007, 04:34 PM
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Mine's set to F5, I wanted it on the Expose button on the new keyboards (F3, I just use the mouse of expose) but no matter what I set Expose or Spaces to F3 Always uses Expose.
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Old 28-10-2007, 11:29 AM
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Try Fn-F3, see if it's been relegated to that?
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