[HOWTO] - Cool Keyboard/Mouse Combos

[strobe]

Originally posted by RMB
While fooling around I accidently option click the desktop and the active window disappeared. To bring back the window I just click the app icon on the dock and it came back.

Option-click a background app will hide the foreground app.

This is also an ancient gesture, as most of the ones on this forum are.

[zootbobbalu]

Here's a couple of keyboard shortcuts I've come across for Jaguar.

To open Application folder (Jaguar)
Command + Shift + A

To open Favorites folder (Jaguar)
Command + Shift + F

[Browni]

Why did apple change it from comand +shift A ?

[MrNivit1]

Here's a cool trick I stumbled upon while messing around with keyboard combinations. Hold down command-shift-4 and the cursor will turn into a target. Select an area of the screen (i.e. click, drag to draw a box, release) and a new graphic file with an image of the area you selected will appear on the desktop. I guess Apple was kind enough to bring this easter egg from OS9 (apple-shift-3 will give you a picture of the entire screen in OS9) to OSX.

[iPenguin]

I discovered this on accident:
In practically any app, press control+w to cycle through open windows (except for minimized ones). To go in the opposite direction, press control+shift+w. These key commands seem to work in every application, except for IE. In some apps like Photoshop and Flash, it doesn't work quite right either (I think this has something to do with floating windows...).

[Pengu]

Heyo iPenguin. Yet another of the flightless Winged Species... and stuff. anyways. the Ctrl-W feature is part of 'Full Keyboard Access'. i changed mine to something like Ctrl-L cus Ctrl-W is 'Find' in pico, which is far superior in my mind for CLI text editing than vi. why vi is default i have no idea.

Pengu

(iPengu anyone? )

[Greystroke]

here's a little tid-bit i found in the universal acces system preference. it isn't really easter egg but it was unknown to me that it could be done.

it is called the zoom feature: option + command + *(8) turns on the zoom from any where. pressing option + command + +(plus) or - (minus) you can zoom in and out on the active desktop. i'm sure isn't really anything new, but it's rather fun to play with, especially with pictures.

[bigbadbill]

Originally posted by zootbobbalu
Here's a couple of keyboard shortcuts I've come across for Jaguar.

To open Application folder (Jaguar)
Command + Shift + A

To open Favorites folder (Jaguar)
Command + Shift + F

this also works for:

Home (Command + Shift + H)
Computer (Command + Shift + C)
iDisk (Command + Shift + I)

but for some reason Desktop (Command + Shift + D) was overlooked