Still, these two keys aren’t exactly the same. For example, in Microsoft Word, the keyboard shortcut for the Split Document Window command is Alt+Ctrl+S in Windows, but Option-⌘-T on the Macintosh. In many situations, keyboard shortcuts that involve the Alt key in Windows use the Option key on the Mac. This is the closest thing the Mac offers to the Windows Alt key. On North American Mac keyboards, a key on the bottom row is labeled both Alt and Option. Here’s your cheat sheet to the menu keyboard symbols: represents the Shift key, means the Option key, and refers to the Control key.Īlt key. Unfortunately, they’re represented in the menu with goofy symbols instead of their true key names. I'll save this hack for another post.Mac keyboard shortcuts are listed at the right side of each open menu, just as in Windows. If I ever need to change my laptop, I will be able to quickly restore my settings. I created a git repo in the ~/Library/Services directory and pushed it to a private repository on GitHub.
You see the gear icon appear in the menu bar for a brief moment. Press one of the shortcut keys you created. Scroll all the way down in the right pane until you see the new scripts you've just created.Ĭlick Add shortcut and press the key combination you want to assign for each of the services. Open Keyboard in System Preferences or by typing “Keyboard” into the Spotlight search box. We will set up keyboard shortcuts, so we can easily run those scripts. Assign keyboard shortcutsĬustom Automator scripts are called “services” and are shown in the Keyboard shortcut settings. You can remap keys using the following command in the terminal. Now, there a simple brute-force solution in Eugene Petrenko's post. and International layouts to easily alternate between keyboards. In this post, I'll show you how to get the tilde where it belongs, next to the “1” key, and how to switch between U.S. Mac keyboards, the tilde key is (mis)placed next to the left Shift button. Fix the tilde key on Mac with Automator and keyboard shortcuts
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