Option-volume key... cool!

ghost_user_name

I just discovered something pretty nifty. I'm using Jaguar and don't know if this was in the previous versions of Mac OS X.



If you hold the option key and press any of the three volume keys, the Sound panel opens up in System Preferences.



I love my Mac OS X.

kingofsomewherehot

Speaking of Volume keys ... is there any keyboard way to control volume on an old (266mhz G3) iMac ???



Or a way to assign function keys that I'm unaware of ?



(running X.2)

eman

[quote]Originally posted by KingOfSomewhereHot:

<strong>Speaking of Volume keys ... is there any keyboard way to control volume on an old (266mhz G3) iMac ???



Or a way to assign function keys that I'm unaware of ?



(running X.2)</strong><hr></blockquote>



Get a Pro Keyboard.

brianmacos

[quote]Originally posted by Brad:

<strong>I just discovered something pretty nifty. I'm using Jaguar and don't know if this was in the previous versions of Mac OS X.



If you hold the option key and press any of the three volume keys, the Sound panel opens up in System Preferences.



I love my Mac OS X. </strong><hr></blockquote>



Nice that is cool... thanks for pointing that out....

buonrotto

Works for brightness keys too (F14 and F15).

mac+

nice find Brad...



(adopts Homer voice) Mmmm OS X programmers - always thinking two steps ahead!

aquatic

Nice to see that OS X is finally catching up to OS 9. 9.2.2 does this on my iBook. I wonder why I never tried that before! It's like when I accidentally discovered Option clicking the Clock in the menu bar, or the close and windowshade widgets. When you use Windows for too long it really messes with your mind. You forget that things make sense in MacOS!

eugene

[quote]Originally posted by EmAn:

<strong>



Get a Pro Keyboard.</strong><hr></blockquote>



And a USB card. The problem with that set-up is this...



With a USB card, the keyboard won't be powered up until some ways into the start-up process, defnitely after the period when you can use key combos like Command-Option-O-F, Command-Option-P-R, Option and stuff like that.

luca

Did you say that he said he was running an old 266 MHz iMac? Not a beige G3, but when I heard "old 266 MHz" that was immediately what came to mind. The iMac has built in USB. The Pro Keyboard will work fine. My brother used one on his Bondi iMac until he got a beige G3. I'll have to tell him about the problem with startup key combos for that before he gets a USB card for it.

zapchud

Works in 10.1.5 too.

defiant

works in 10.0 too

ghost_user_name

Well, shiggity shiggity shwa.

Here I thought I'd found something new.



At least it's new to ME.

mount_my_floppy

How the hell did you happen to come across this?

defiant

[quote]Originally posted by Brad:

<strong>Well, shiggity shiggity shwa.

Here I thought I'd found something new.



At least it's new to ME. </strong><hr></blockquote>



at least

spart

There is a nice little CP called HotApp that will assign things like hiding the dock, volume, etc to function keys. Works in the background (unlike QuickKeys X! )



I use it with my MacAlly keyboard, since I can't stand the pro keyboards (they look great, but they are freaking flat.)



<img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />

stroszek

[quote]Originally posted by Eugene:

<strong>Command-Option-O-F, Command-Option-P-R, Option and stuff like that.</strong><hr></blockquote>



This is off topic, but what does Command-Option-O-F do?

eman

[quote]Originally posted by Luca Rescigno:

<strong>Did you say that he said he was running an old 266 MHz iMac? Not a beige G3, but when I heard "old 266 MHz" that was immediately what came to mind. The iMac has built in USB. The Pro Keyboard will work fine. My brother used one on his Bondi iMac until he got a beige G3. I'll have to tell him about the problem with startup key combos for that before he gets a USB card for it.</strong><hr></blockquote>



Yep, you're right... he said iMac.

visigothe

[quote]Originally posted by Stroszek:

<strong>



This is off topic, but what does Command-Option-O-F do?</strong><hr></blockquote>



It brings you to the Open Firmware prompt. You will almost never need to use this particular key combination. OF is a bit like the RISC motherboard version of a normal PC BIOS. It holds all sorts of info like "where's the boot disk?" and "Who killed Laura Palmer" If the OF becomes corrupt you can reset it to defaults by typing "reset all" at the prompt[and hitting return], then continue the normal boot process by typing "bye" at the prompt [and hitting return].

buonrotto

command-option-O-F brigs up the open firmware screen before a full GUI boot-up. It's text only. I've used it to type "reset-all" which resets PRAM, VRAM and anything else in hardware that can be reset.



This is also off-topic to some extent, but it doesn't seem to deserve a special one in itself. I tinkered with the Airport utility and set up a closed network for my Airport base station. When I updated the Network pref pane, to look for the specific network, the little Airport menu item slid to the left and the name of the new network scrolled across the space created like a ticker-tape (like iTunes does).



The character palette in the menubar is pretty nice too.



I'm just amazed at the level of detail and subtlety that they've put into Jaguar and the revised applications that came with it.

eugene

[quote]Originally posted by EmAn:

<strong>



Yep, you're right... he said iMac.</strong><hr></blockquote>



D'oh, missed that part. <img src="graemlins/embarrassed.gif" border="0" alt="[Embarrassed]" />

aquatic

I always liked the NBC "If you haven't seen, it's new to you!"