apple + Tab app change.

blackwind212 · April 13, 2004 9:27PM

I hate that Apple + Tab changes applications.

I want it to work like in Linux and windows, where it changes the windows.

So if all I have open is two safari windows when I hit apple tab I want it to change between those two windows

is there an apple shortcut to switch between windows (other than expose)?

or is there a way to change apple tab shortcut?

kickaha · April 13, 2004 9:32PM

Cmd-` changes windows, Cmd-Tab changes applications.

Cmd, not Apple.

escher · April 13, 2004 9:32PM

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Originally posted by blackwind212

is there an apple shortcut to switch between windows (other than expose)?

Yes. Use Apple-tilde (~).

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or is there a way to change apple tab shortcut?

I don't think so. However, you can use a 3rd party application switcher like LiteSwitch X to create a new shortcut.

Escher

ghost_user_name · April 13, 2004 9:37PM

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Originally posted by Kickaha

Cmd, not Apple.

You haven't used Macs long enough, boy! Heck, I remember my first Mac having a plain "apple" key back before the days when we would only have the "open apple" key.

I still sometimes think "open apple" in my head when I'm saying "command" to someone else. Doesn't that make more sense anyway? How on earth do you get command out of that little squiggle anyway? In Switzerland, it's the campground symbol! Whaaa?!

<end rant>

kickaha · April 13, 2004 9:47PM

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Originally posted by Brad

You haven't used Macs long enough, boy! Heck, I remember my first Mac having a plain "apple" key back before the days when we would only have the "open apple" key.

Yup, and before that it was 'open apple' and 'closed apple' on the Apple ][ line.... youngster.

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I still sometimes think "open apple" in my head when I'm saying "command" to someone else. Doesn't that make more sense anyway? How on earth do you get command out of that little squiggle anyway? In Switzerland, it's the campground symbol! Whaaa?!

Because most tasks in life just keep going around in loops endlessly.

silentechoes · April 13, 2004 9:47PM

Oh man, I remember calling it open apple also. I don't remember how I switched to calling it command. I don't even remember where that came from.

Control F4 will rotate between all windows in all application, You can change it to what ever you want in System preferences > keyboard and mouse > keyboard shortcuts.

blackwind212 · April 13, 2004 9:58PM

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Originally posted by SilentEchoes

Control F4 will rotate between all windows in all application, You can change it to what ever you want in System preferences > keyboard and mouse > keyboard shortcuts.

yay! worked perfectly

(yea I'm still a newbie :-) )

thx guys

mr. me · April 13, 2004 10:01PM

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Originally posted by Brad

You haven't used Macs long enough, boy! Heck, I remember my first Mac having a plain "apple" key back before the days when we would only have the "open apple" key.

I still sometimes think "open apple" in my head when I'm saying "command" to someone else. Doesn't that make more sense anyway? How on earth do you get command out of that little squiggle anyway? In Switzerland, it's the campground symbol! Whaaa?!

<end rant>

I don't know what burr Kickaha has under his saddle, but the Apple key and the Command key are the same. On Apple supplied keyboards, it is still the venerable Apple key. Third party keyboards name the key "Command."

kickaha · April 13, 2004 10:15PM

All official Apple documentation refers to it as the "Command" key. Period. The clover symbol is the official symbol for "Command". The Apple logo is a holdover from older keyboards, such as the late 1970s Apple ][s I mentioned. Third parties cannot put the Apple logo on their keyboards, so they use the actual name for it instead.

No burr under my saddle, just proper term usage. Learn it?

amorph · April 13, 2004 10:19PM

I have a tendency to call it the "flower" key, which is the term that sprang up right about the time that "open apple" started falling out of favor.

I've trained myself to say "command," but I still think of it as the "flower key."

dmband0026 · April 13, 2004 10:35PM

I still call it the open apple key. People think I'm crazy. Haha.

kickaha · April 13, 2004 10:59PM

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Originally posted by Amorph

I have a tendency to call it the "flower" key, which is the term that sprang up right about the time that "open apple" started falling out of favor.

I've trained myself to say "command," but I still think of it as the "flower key."

That's okay, I secretly still call it the 'clover key'.

But I never call it that outside my own head, so people will actually know what I'm talking about...

defiant · April 14, 2004 10:43AM

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Originally posted by Brad

I still sometimes think "open apple" in my head when I'm saying "command" to someone else. Doesn't that make more sense anyway? How on earth do you get command out of that little squiggle anyway? In Switzerland, it's the campground symbol! Whaaa?!

Last I checked, we still used this:

8)

I say 'command' to the command key. I've seen Apple refer to it as "Command or Apple key" though. Some people also call it 'butterfly'. Kinda like 'flower'?

ghost_user_name · April 14, 2004 10:49AM

Oops, my mistake. After doing a little research, is this more correct?

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What is the shape on the Command Key? A cloverleaf? A butterfly? No, it's a symbol that's a Swedish campground trail marker that stands for "remarkable feature." How's that for trivia.

Sharon Zardetto Aker, The Macintosh Bible 7th Ed., Berkeley, Peachpit Press, 1998

Though, I *have* heard and read people call it the "campground" key, whether the reference is correct or not.

defiant · April 14, 2004 11:42AM

Note to Brad: Sweden is not Switzerland

Interesting fact though.

ghost_user_name · April 14, 2004 1:12PM

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Originally posted by Defiant

Note to Brad: Sweden is not Switzerland

Interesting fact though.

BAH!

ME NO READUMS GOOD. YAY DYSLEXIA!

kenjay · April 14, 2004 1:12PM

This article from Andy Hertzfeld's EXCELLENT website "Folklore" will explain the Apple / Command key:

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py...&detail=medium

cybermonkey · April 14, 2004 2:14PM

Interesting read this thread, So what came first, the command key or the apple key?

People keep referencing 'open apple key' ? Whats the background on that?

kickaha · April 14, 2004 2:48PM

The Apple ][ line had two modifier keys on the keyboard, one a line drawing of the Apple logo, and one solid. I originally heard these called 'white apple' and 'black apple'... but since the Franklin 100 had a black keyboard, people got confused, and the 'open apple' (outline) and 'closed apple' (solid) came into use.

They were used on the Lisa (Mac predecessor) to initiate a menu command. Read the above link for the rest of the story.

On the Apple ][ line, they *were* officially 'open apple' and 'closed apple', but with the switch to the Mac, they became known as 'command'. (Note that there's only one kind of command key - the two on the Apple ][ were actually different keystrokes.)

dobby · April 14, 2004 4:11PM

Wow, Its been decades since I heard the term 'open apple'.

Ah, BBC Micros, Trash 80's, Apple ]['s, C64's, Spectrums, Sinclairs. Those were real computers! None of this Multitasking, one click install, easy to use rubbish

.

I sure do miss those days - NOT!

Dobby.

scott · April 14, 2004 9:35PM

I HATE the Windows does it. I'm glad Apple uses command-tab and command=~

It's so much better.

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