Comments on: Navigate the Dock in Mac OS X with These 8 Keyboard Shortcuts

By: Robert Gray

Robert Gray — Wed, 09 May 2012 13:09:00 +0000

Not all keyboards have a fn key.

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 09 May 2012 12:57:56 +0000

Holding the Option *while* navigating actually reorders the dock. To access “Force Quit”, hold Option after you have navigated to the correct item ..

By the way, the “Hold Option”-method works for lots of other menus (the context menu for example), too.

By: Theo Vosse

Theo Vosse — Wed, 09 May 2012 06:45:33 +0000

That’s indeed a good way to go, but only if you’ve got full control over all the accounts and machines you work with. If you regularly switch, this becomes problematic…

By: campyguy

campyguy — Tue, 08 May 2012 22:24:08 +0000

You should explore your Mac’s Keyboard Shortcuts section of System Preferences – I’ve set up or modified about 100-odd commands for years in Mac OS X.

For instance, the bit above “You must use the initial Function+F3 command” doesn’t work for me, since I’ve changed the “Move Focus to the Dock” command to simply “Option-D” – no Keyboard Twister for me.

Just about every application – including the Finder – can have application-specific shortcuts or global shortcuts. I press Command-P to get the Print dialog, then press the custom Command-Option-P I created that’s tagged to “Save as PDF” – saves me a bunch of mousing around!

By: Nguyen

Nguyen — Tue, 08 May 2012 19:07:01 +0000

This is good, I wish for more keyboard-only solutions. I am old school and not a gesture kind of guy

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 08 May 2012 18:54:38 +0000

It’s labeled as ‘fn’ on most Mac keyboards

By: michael

michael — Tue, 08 May 2012 17:47:57 +0000

Found it, i’m retarded

By: michael

michael — Tue, 08 May 2012 17:47:30 +0000

Wtf, there is no function key