Dictionary shortcut in Tiger no longer works
- Thread starter freaky
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In what Cocoa developed applications are you performing the 'Command <control> D' - mouse cursor over a word, sequence on?
Go to the 'System Preferences', 'Keyboard & Mouse' Utility and click on the 'Keyboard Shortcuts' tab. Scroll down to 'Dictionary' (click on the disclosure triangle, if it is pointing to the right). Are the check box'es of 'Dictionary' and 'Look up in Dictionary' marked with a check mark?; and, is 'Command <control> (caret symbol) D' assigned to 'Look up in Dictionary'?
A sample of the applications that support the above keyboard / mouse sequence:
'iChat', 'Mail', 'Safari' - with a web page's source code window present ('View, View Source' menu item) or within a textedit (text entry) field, 'OmniWeb' - with a web page's source code window present ('View, View in Source Editor' menu item) or within a textedit (text entry) field, 'Script Editor', and 'TextEdit'.
Give such a try, and post your results.
Go to the 'System Preferences', 'Keyboard & Mouse' Utility and click on the 'Keyboard Shortcuts' tab. Scroll down to 'Dictionary' (click on the disclosure triangle, if it is pointing to the right). Are the check box'es of 'Dictionary' and 'Look up in Dictionary' marked with a check mark?; and, is 'Command <control> (caret symbol) D' assigned to 'Look up in Dictionary'?
A sample of the applications that support the above keyboard / mouse sequence:
'iChat', 'Mail', 'Safari' - with a web page's source code window present ('View, View Source' menu item) or within a textedit (text entry) field, 'OmniWeb' - with a web page's source code window present ('View, View in Source Editor' menu item) or within a textedit (text entry) field, 'Script Editor', and 'TextEdit'.
Give such a try, and post your results.
ElDiabloConCaca
U.S.D.A. Prime
Can you try creating a new, temporary user and see if it works under the new user account? This may narrow it down to a corrupt preference or something with your original user account if it does work, and may narrow it down to something system-wide if it doesn't work under either account.
ElDiabloConCaca
U.S.D.A. Prime
Fryke: are you saying that Command-Control-D does not bring up the dictionary entry in Safari for you?
It works for me in Safari...
It works for me in Safari...
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