Am 14.07.2014 um 18:11 schrieb Paola Manzini <pm...@st-andrews.ac.uk>:

> Hi All,
> 
> I hope somebody can help - I have searched the message board, but there is 
> nothing recent that I could find to solve my problem.
> 
> I just moved from Windows to Mac (Macbook pro), on OS Maverick, using Lyx 
> 2.1.0 (April 2014 release). I cannot make most of the shortcuts work. I 
> understand that e.g. the shortcut for \gamma, "^ M G G" , stands for 
> ctlr-m-m-g, but if I press this key combination nothing happens. Using either 
> the command or option keys instead of ctrl also makes no difference (or 
> produces different results).

Hi Paola,

the shortcut for \gamma on Mac is Control-m g g - four key strokes: Control, m, 
g, g.

This works for me.

Stephan

> 
> I read somewhere that the ctrl key is not recognised in Lyx, so I changed the 
> shortcuts in lyx\preferences\Editing\shortcuts, but again nothing happens 
> (for the specific example to "Command M G G"). I have checked and the system 
> is using the mac.bind.
> 
> Can anyone suggest a (simple please!) solution? I am a total beginner with 
> Mac OS, so I am not at all confindent with meddling with configuration files, 
> and would love any solution implementable from inside the Lyx gui.
> 
> Thanks!
> paola
> 

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