This may or may not be common knowledge, but it was a strange enough thing I thought it worth sharing. I have a Windows keyboard attached through a KVM switch to a Mini. I finally decided it would be helpful to switch the functions of the Command and Option keys so that they match a Mac keyboard and thus reduce my tendency to do uncool things with the windows key when I have to work in Windows and forget I can’t use Mac commands. I’m also using a bluetooth keyboard on my phone more and the consistency would help. I also use the keyboard commander in Voiceover tied to a few scripts. I use the one to check the time often, so I was disappointed when that stopped working, regardless of which key I pressed. So I went poking around the VO utility and this is when I discovered the weirdness. I changed the key to be the left option key where it had been the right option key. Surprise! The right option key, now the Windows key, works as expected. It turns out this isn't the fault of Keyboard Commander. Changing the functions of the command and function keys apparently confuses the whole system so that it doesn’t know its right from its left. Dictation, which I don’t use but it made a good test case, now activates from the left instead of the right, though it does respect the key swap.
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