In no particular order, here are seven keyboard shortcuts for Mac OS X 10.2 that everyone running Jaguar should know:
Shift + Command + A in Finder: opens the Application folder. (Thanks, Gaucho and Michael J!)
Option + Mute: launches System Preferences.
Option + Command + clicking an application in the Dock: selects that application and hides all others.
Command + Option-D: Toggle Dock Hiding On/Off.
Command + Delete in Finder: Move Highlighted Item to Trash.
Hold T key during startup: Put FireWire machine into FireWire Target Disk mode. (Thanks, Sam!)
Command + Option + 8 toggles zoom in any application. Then Command + Option + (plus key) zooms in and Command + Option + (minus key) zooms out. (Thanks, RAM for the tip and ais for doing the math!) – FYI: we actually covered the Zoom commands back on 9/25/02 here.
Enjoy! Anyone have any other favorite keyboard shortcuts? Add your feedback below.
In Safari, try:
Command + Option + M: Marks the current page for Snapback
Command + Option + P: Page Snapback
Once you get used to it, you’ll browse more efficiently!
for firewire target, you do not need to hold command, just holding t during startup works
Actually, it’s Shift+Command+A for the Application folder.
It’s shift + command + A that opens the Application folder
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Command + K in Finder: Connect to Server
I use that one all the time…
I just think that the Safari snapback shortcuts are very inconvenient… I wish you could set a snapback with a button on the toolbar.
The x-key at startup, for forced Mac OS X booting.
command-` cycles through windows in safari, ie, chimera, mozilla, omniweb, the finder…pretty much 90% of os x apps!
command + tab switches between apps
shift + commad + tab goes the opposite direction
Once that command is issued, pressing command+Q will make whichever application you have selected to Quit. And, it does this without leaving your current app!
A keyboard shortcut Apple should really fix,
because it’s hardly ever the same, not even
in Apple’s own iApps: the Preferences key…
Holding SHIFT while starting (just after the grey apple logo) will start your machine in “Safe Mode”, roughly equivalent to starting with extentions off. It will also fsk your startup disk (Essentially runs Disk First Aid). Great for troubleshooting, or routine maintenance without your install disk. I believe this only applies to 10.2.
Command + Option + 8 toggles zoom in any application.
Then Command + Option + (plus key) zooms in and Command + Option + (minus key) zooms out.
Very Cool
shift+command+H for home folder
shift+command+N for new folder (I miss command+N 🙁 )
command+N for new window
command+up and command+down for tunnelling through folders in finder
command+left and command+right opens and closes selected folder in list view
damn that command-mute trick is cool!
there were only six shortcuts
thanks though for the six
Apples full list of commands Article number 75459 in the techinfo library. Go nuts!
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option-mute not only takes you to the preferences; it takes you to the Sound preference pane. Going along with the theme, option-brightness will take you to the Monitors preference pane and option-volume up (or down) will also take you to the Sound preference pane.
I, for one, am terribly disappointed in the Powerbook keyboard F-keys that are tied to hardware functions, and having to use the fn key to use the F-keys freely. It should be the other way around so we can use the F-keys with one stroke for customized operations by way of QuicKeys or within programs that allow such customization.
Michael’s comment about the function keys is fair enough, but there is a fix. From memory (I’m typing this at work): you reboot your Powerbook into OS 9, then go to the keyboard control panel, then click on the function keys button, then fix your settings, then close your control panel and boot back into OS X again. That should fix it (it did for me). Email me if you want better instructions.
comman – eject button
brings up a menu to shutdown, restart, sleep or logout.
it replaces what used to be pressing the power button on the old keyboards.
not command-eject, use ctrl-eject
*sorry*
Why isnt there a shortcut for the Documents folder?…kinda sad actually…
This zoom-in shortcut…
I am impressed.
I read somewhere there is a keyboard shortcut for speaking text in any document. Anybody know what it is???
actually, the system prefs thing works other ways too. option mute brings up the volume control panel. but F15 on the pro keyboards raises the contrast and F14 lowers it. Option + F15 or F14 opens the system control panel..but on displays, not volume
command+k = connect to server