Comments on: Quickly Access System Preferences Using Option & Function Keys

By: Set a System Preferences Keyboard Shortcut in Mac OS X

Set a System Preferences Keyboard Shortcut in Mac OS X — Sun, 13 May 2012 18:12:25 +0000

[...] setting anything extra, you can also launch directly into select System Preference panels by using Option and the various function keys like Audio and [...]

By: QA

QA — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 01:29:30 +0000

Anyone else find it strange that there’s no way to access the main System Preferences menu from a keyboard shortcut? And yet there are four shortcuts for accessing specific sub-menus of Sys Prefs… go figure.

And while I’m on the subject, why isn’t there a way to type ō as in Tōkyō or other long vowels using keyboard shortcuts?
I’m sure there’s an easy way in Linux… (I don’t know this for a fact, but I will say it anyway to piss off OS X devs who might be reading, and hopefully motivate them to actually fix this shameful shortcoming in the Mac OS.)

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Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:14:21 +0000

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By: IQ Nill

IQ Nill — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 06:18:24 +0000

This works providing that your F-keys are in the “dumb mode”, if they are set to be actual F-keys you must add the fn to the shortcut combo.

By: Learning OS X

Learning OS X — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:04:24 +0000

This is pretty handy. I’m a huge fan of doing as much as possible without taking my hands from the keyboard.

Shaving seconds off of your workflow each day can add up to real time over the course of a year.

An alternative to those shortcut keys is to install Quicksilver or LaunchBar. With them you can up all of your preferences without your hands leaving the keyboard.

By: EVula

EVula — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:29:56 +0000

I’ve got an older Apple keyboard, and option-mute brought up the Output preference pane. Neat shortcut.