Picking up user preferences upon startup
I made a change to my main user account home directory, and short name. All things are in sync, but my user preferences aren't being picked up. If I make a change to the preferences, they will stay in effect until next startup. I'm guessing the old user name, or folder name is stored somewhere, and needs to be changed to point to the new name.
Anyone know if this is accurate, and if so, where is this stored?
I had switched the Command & Control keys via the Modifier Keys dialog in System Preferences. I had switched them back to their normal default behavior just prior to making the username change. However, the Command & Control are flipped each time I restart the Mac, which requires resetting them via the Modifier Keys dialog in System Preferences.
That may be enough to answer your question, but in case it isn't, the following is background info:
I come from the PC world, and still need to work on PC's, so I have been remapping the Mac to make "flipping" back and forth between machines more reasonable. The original approach I used was similar to the one detailed at http://blog.mvballtech.com/2008/04/fixing-up-mac-key-bindings-for-windows.html
This approach makes use of switching the switching the Control and Command keys via Keyboard System Preferences. The only hitch, for me, comes when trying to learn Final Cut Studio where there is so much use of keyboard shortcuts. Having the Control and Command keys switched works, but having to be mindful when reading in the tutorials to use the Control key to think it's Command key in my case (or vice versa) distracts from what I'm trying to learn. Anyway, I chose a different approach to remap the keys, which requires defining more key-action pairs in DefaultKeyBinding.dict file.
I switched the Modifier Keys (Command & Control) back their defaults, modified DefaultKeyBinding.dict.
Again, to restate - the Command & Control keys worked as normal when I made the change, but whenever I restart the Mac, the Command & Control are flipped, requiring them to be reset.
This is the only thing I have seen to be an issue, to date, but is a bit of a nuisance, and indicates something isn't quite right.
http://www.erasetotheleft.com/post/mac-os-x-key-bindings/
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