1 ProPresenter:Action Hotkeys not Working
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3 :author: Aaron Ball
4 :email: nullspoon@iohq.net
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9 My church recently got a new Mac mini for our media computer (we used to have a
10 Windows 7 machine). During setting this new system up, I realized that the
11 ProPresenter action hotkeys didn't work (eg: Clear all is F1, Clear foreground
12 is F2, Clear backgrounds is F3, etc). I don't know about you, but having
13 hotkeys is a pretty priceless piece of efficient computing, especially if
14 you're running media in a fast-paced presentation environment. After a little
15 research, I discovered that Apple, in their infinite wisdom (because that's not
16 an inflammatory statement), in fact disabled the OS functionality for the
17 function keys and by default they control hardware functionality (eg: F1 and F2
18 control brightness, F3 does nothing, F4 does nothing, F5 does nothing, F6 does
19 nothing...getting the idea?). Here's how you fix it.
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21 Head on over to the __System Preferences__. In there, select __Keyboard__.
22 There are two tabs in there (Keyboard and Keyboard shortcuts). If _Keyboard_
23 isn't selected, select it. On that page you should see a checkbox labeled
24 "__Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as as standard function keys__". Check that box
25 and all of your ProPresenter action hotkeys should work now (Yay!).
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27 If anyone wants to look up my source for this, I found the solution in the
28 Apple knowledge base http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3399[here].
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31 Category:ProPresenter
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33 Category:Apple
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