Function keys, Volume & Keyboard shortcuts make me sad

As with many of you, I've just upgraded to 10.5, and I'm having infinite problems with volume control.
I'm using one of the new slim apple keyboards (and oh its fine, but besides..) and the volume control is on the F key row at the top (as opposed to over the num pad, and yes I've attempted to just use the buttons above the num pad, but alas, nothing).
The problem I'm having is that I can either have keyboard volume control, OR I can use the other F keys for various other functions and bindings, but not both.
The option for this is (as expected) under *Keyboard & Mouse, Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys*
All I want is volume control and the ability to use the other keys for other applications, even if I had to install a program of some description in order to have this work
The alternative is to find out how to set it up as an actual keyboard shortcuts through *Keyboard & Mouse, Keyboard Shortcuts*, but as volume control has no text, it becomes rather difficult to say what menu title it is.

I have the keyboard hooked up to a MacBook Pro under 10.4.10. Now I can't use the function keys in combination with shift. For instance in Photoshop, the command fill with forground colour (=shift + F5) is not working. How can I fix this?

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rajlego,
in the Keyboard pane of System Preferences, select the Shortcuts tab, and then select Mission Control on the left-hand side. On the right-hand side, make sure that the Mission Control checkbox is checked, double-click on its current key combination (by default “^↑”) so that the key combination is highlighted, and then press the F3 button — that will set its shortcut to be F3. You can now press F3 to bring up Mission Control without needing to also press the Fn button.

How to use a function key on keyboard for executing a non SAP program

Hello Gurus.
My client want to run a non SAP program selecting the specific function key on keyboard during the entering data on SAP.
i knew that it is possible to execute a non sap program after adding special program each by SAP program. but, it is huge jobs.
client wants to run a non sap program wherever he is on SAP program. Is it possible ?

Hi,
1. Create a ".exe" file for the .NET application.
2. Create a PF-STATUS and assign the Function Code for the desired Function Key in the SAP program.
3. In the USER COMMAND code inside program, when the respective function code is triggered, write the below code with the path to the .NET exe file.
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How can I create a button that performs the function of a keyboard shortcut, specifically print scrn

I need my presentation users to take a screen shot of a slide within my presentation. I know that windows 8 has a new function that allows a screen shot to be taken and saved directly to the user's computer and I need a button that can be placed on a slide and perform this function. The shortcut is (windows key) + (print scrn). I want to save my userss some time and just have a button perform this task. Any idea on how I can make this possible? I am using Captivate 7.

I think Ajit may have misunderstood your need. The command he told you about triggers the Print command to allow you to print the currently active slide (on a laser or inkjet printer). This does not have the same result as you would get by hitting the PrintScreen button on your keyboard (to take a screencapture and have it saved to the Clipboard for pasting somewhere else).
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There are JavaScript libraries that will allow you to execute JavaScript code in a Captivate project that can take a screen capture:
https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/wiki/Screen-Capture
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Volume keyboard shortcut not working (since upgrade to Snow Leopard)

The following keyboard shortcut commands, when I have upgraded to OS 10.6 a couple of months ago, have stopped working:
Command-Up Arrow
Command-Down Arrow
(They control the volume of the iTunes application itself)
Apparently they still exist according to: http://www.apple.com/itunes/how-to/shortcuts.html
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Try adding every drive to Spotlight's Privacy Pane in System Preferences>Spotlight, wait a few minutes & remove them, then wait a few hours/days to see if it's better.
Though slower, in the intterim, you might try...
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http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11076
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So, I've gone online and done some research but I can't seem to find anything on creating custom, universal hot keys. Everything seems to be about keyboard shortcuts, which are great within the applications, but I'm looking to create Hot Keys that launch applications or folders.
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I also don't want to use an app launcher because the additional engine it uses just clogs up my resources and increases my start-up time by about a minute....

Sed_P wrote:
So, I've gone online and done some research but I can't seem to find anything on creating custom, universal hot keys. Everything seems to be about keyboard shortcuts, which are great within the applications, but I'm looking to create Hot Keys that launch applications or folders.
For example, in Quicksilver (which is no longer working for some reason) I had a trigger to open my Applications folder set at "controlshiftA" one for my documents folder at "controlshiftD" and one to launch Safari at "controlshiftZ" but I can't seem to set this up without some sort of app launcher.
You can't. You need an application launcher for those tasks.
I also don't want to use an app launcher because the additional engine it uses just clogs up my resources and increases my start-up time by about a minute....
as I said there is no way around that. either you use an application launcher or you won't have that functionality. 1 minute extra startup time sounds way too much. I use Butler, not quicksilver but I know for sure it only adds a few seconds and consumes very few resources when it runs. I suspect it's the same way with Quicksilver.
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Remap Volume Keyboard Shortcuts?

Hello Apple Community. Anyone know how I can remap the volume up/down/mute keys with the standard function keys turned on? I'm using a Mac Pro and I want to be able to use the standard keys when I'm editing but I can't find a fast way on my keyboard to adjust the volume since there's no "fn" key like there is on my MacBook Pro. Anyone have any thoughts? I'd love to be able to set F10-12 to adjust the volume as standard fn keys instead of with Apple's super-duper presets. PLEASE HELP!
-Rob

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How can I assign system wide up/down volume controls to Fn keys on a non-Apple keyboard?

If you use alsa, try make bind to volume keys such script:
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#!/bin/sh
MUTE="off"
if [ 'X'$1 == 'Xmute' ]; then
amixer -q set Master off
MUTE="on"
else
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fi
if [ $MUTE == 'on' ]; then
INFO=MUTED
ICON=audio-volume-muted
else
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elif [ $VOLUME -lt 33 ]; then
ICON=audio-volume-low
elif [ $VOLUME -lt 66 ]; then
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fi
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My keyboard volume buttons no longer work (other function keys still work)??

I've never had any problems with my keyboard but after one instance of viewing a video (via my TV, where I selected audio device
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work.
When I press them they show they volume icon onscreen but it is grey and non-functional?
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success so far. I've also played video through TV again and put audio settings back to mac, instead of HDMI, but still nothing.
Any ideas??

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I have just upgraded from a MacBook Core Duo 2.0Ghz (mid-2006) to a MacBook Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz (mid-2008).
I had Windows XP (SP3) installed and running nicely on a partition on the old MacBook, and what I've now done is simply swapped that whole hard drive from the old MacBook to the new one. OSX (10.5) runs just fine, but Windows is giving me issues. I successfully reactivated Windows, and then did a repair installation from my original WinXP install disc, which took Windows back to Service Pack 2. I used the OSX install DVD that came with the new MacBook to install the Boot Camp Windows drivers (version 2.0), and then downloaded and ran the Boot Camp 2.1 update, and then upgraded to WinXP Service Pack 3.
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AHA!!!! FIXED IT!!!
Found another forum post here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7688314&
And that reminded me that the little Boot Camp grey diamond icon wasn't appearing in the tray like it should. I found KbdMgr.exe and tried to open it, but got an error. So I deleted it and did repair/update from Boot Camp 2.1 Updater, rebooted, and now KbdMgr.exe is running, the icon is in the tray, and the function keys (volume, brightness, etc) are working! Hooray!!
So in conclusion, this problem may not have been due to the different keyboard layouts, but could've been something about SP3 & BootCamp 2.1. Maybe. Who knows. I'm just happy I've got it working.

Function keys, Volume & Keyboard shortcuts make me sad

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