ProPresenter:Action Hotkeys not Working
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:author: Aaron Ball
:email: nullspoon@iohq.net



My church recently got a new Mac mini for our media computer (we used to have a
Windows 7 machine). During setting this new system up, I realized that the
ProPresenter action hotkeys didn't work (eg: Clear all is F1, Clear foreground
is F2, Clear backgrounds is F3, etc). I don't know about you, but having
hotkeys is a pretty priceless piece of efficient computing, especially if
you're running media in a fast-paced presentation environment. After a little
research, I discovered that Apple, in their infinite wisdom (because that's not
an inflammatory statement), in fact disabled the OS functionality for the
function keys and by default they control hardware functionality (eg: F1 and F2
control brightness, F3 does nothing, F4 does nothing, F5 does nothing, F6 does
nothing...getting the idea?). Here's how you fix it.

Head on over to the __System Preferences__. In there, select __Keyboard__.
There are two tabs in there (Keyboard and Keyboard shortcuts). If _Keyboard_
isn't selected, select it. On that page you should see a checkbox labeled
"__Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as as standard function keys__". Check that box
and all of your ProPresenter action hotkeys should work now (Yay!).

If anyone wants to look up my source for this, I found the solution in the
Apple knowledge base http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3399[here].


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