Apple OSX keyboard shortcuts

The Apple reference document is here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75459

This is also excellent: http://davespicks.com/writing/programming/mackeys.html

Print screen commands

Print Screen is not defined on Apple keyboards..

The following commands place a PNG file on your desktop.

CMD + Shift + 3 captures the entire screen.

CMD + Shift + 4 brings up a selection tool so you can make a rectangular screenshot of a certain area.

CMD + Shift + 4 + Space Bar changes the mouse into a camera. Use this to capture a image of the Dock, a menu, or a window. The background is cropped automatically.

Holding down the Control key with any of the above copies the image to the clipboard, ready to paste, instead of creating a file on the desktop.

Using an Apple keyboard on a Windows XP or Vista system

If you are using an Apple keyboard on a Windows XP system you can use the On-Screen Keyboard provided in Start/All Programs/Accessories/Accessibility. Using the On-Screen Keyboard will not change the active window and it will give you access to the Alt and PrtScrn keys.

You can also do the following to map the F13-F15 keys on an Apple USB keyboard to the functions, Print Screen, Scroll Lock, and Break found on PC keyboards:

1. On your PC, copy the following lines into a text file.

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]

"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,04,00,00,00,46,E0,5F,00,46,00,5E,00,37,E0,5D,00,00,00,00,00


2. Rename the text file remap.reg.
3. Double click on the file remap.reg and answer yes to the question about adding the information to the registry.
4. Logout and then log back on again and F13 through F15 keys are now remapped to their PC equivalents. You can also reboot but this should not be necessary.

See also the SharpKeys utility program found on the web.

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Updated 2008-03-01