Jerry <lancebo...@qwest.net> writes: > On Aug 6, 2013, at 6:04 AM, Rainer M Krug <rai...@krugs.de> wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I recently switched from Linux to OS X. >> >> One thing I haven't figured out is how I can easily access the menu >> items easily via keyboard shortcut. >> >> Under Linux, I did CTRL-I -- N - N to insert a Lyx note. Under OS X >> (Mountain Lion) I have to use several keyboard shortcuts and navigate >> with the cursor keys to open the Insert menu and I insert charactars i >> the text: >> >> - CRTL-F2 gives focus to the Meu Bar >> - i navigates to the Insert menu, but does not open it AND inserts an "i" >> in the document. >> - Cursor Down opens the menu >> - and so on. >> >> Am I missing something here (I hope so)? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Rainer >> >> -- >> Rainer M. Krug >> >> email: RMKrug<at>gmail<dot>com >> > Hi Ranier, > > For all the violence that the Qt widget set does to the Mac interface, > it does do a lot of things right. One of these is that it plays well > with the Keyboard System Preference (Apple menu -> System Preferences > -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> Application Shortcuts). There, > you can set any (available) keystroke combination to any menu item, > using the modifier keys Shift, Command, Option, or Control, plus a > normal key. This is a lot of combinations and you should be able to > find many that do not conflict with already-assigned keystrokes.
Thanks - I am new to Mac and haven't thought about this possibility. > > Maybe someone could take it up with the developers why so many > often-used menu items in LyX are not assigned key combinations out of > the box. > > The method you describe is also available but is rarely used by Mac > users because they don't know it is possible, and because it takes > more effort than the above method for many instances. As you have > discovered, you can get focus to move to the menu bar. (I found that > Command-F2 is much easier to hit than Control-Anything.) Once the menu > bar has focus, start typing letters until focus moves to the main menu > item you want (usually one key is sufficient). Then hit Return (easier > than down-arrow) and start typing letters again until the next level > item is selected, hit Return, and so on. This will get you to any menu > key without using pre-assigned key combinations. It should not insert > letters into your document as long as focus remains in the menu > structure. Return is in fact easier then arrow-down. Thanks, Rainer > > Jerry <#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign> -- Rainer M. Krug email: RMKrug<at>gmail<dot>com
