The mysterious shortcut!
I was going to present this tip as a shortcut to quickly get to the keychain menu. The keychain menu is the one that lets get an on-demand passworded screen-saver. I thought it was really cool at first, but then I realized once I added the VPN menu to my menu bar that the shortcut now brought me to the VPN menu. The shortcut is "Ctrl - F8". If it doesn't work, you can try enabling it with "Ctrl - F1". You might also need to add "Fn" if F8 is already in use by something else. So I don't really know for what I can say it is, but I guess you just have to try it out and see what it does!
posted by Frederic Tremblay at
9/17/2007
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I have the iStat Menu bar, and pressing this shortcut opens the Bluetooth menu in either state of the ctrl-f1.
When I tried this it took me to the Display Preferences
Opens up the Airport tab for me.
I use iStat Menu bar as well, and it opens up my Hard Drives menu item. It's the 7th item from the right, not counting Spotlight. It must be simply relative to the Spotlight - when I move something else to the 7th spot, it selects that instead... Interesting... But why would it launch the screensaver..?
Here's my theory. Ctrl-F8 opens the DEFAULT menu (i.e. that comes with OSX) that is to the far left. If you have iStat installed, it will not open it because iStat doesn't come built into OSX.
Hope This Makes Sense.
MacTipper
Here's my theory. Ctrl-F8 opens the DEFAULT menu (i.e. that comes with OSX) that is to the far left. If you have iStat installed, it will not open it because iStat doesn't come built into OSX.
Hope This Makes Sense.
MacTipper
It seems to open the last menu thingy you add to the menu bar. I have Bluetooth, displays, and Airport menus up there. I turned each off and re-enabled them one by one, and Ctrl + F8 opens the last menu I added.
Ctrl-F8 simply brings you to the part in the menu bar reserved for status information.
I think it really opens the last added item first, but you can browse through the other items with the left and right arrow.
It definitely just opens the one on the left. I moved icons around and it always opened up the one on the left
;-)
Try CTRL+F8 and using TAB to move between menu bar items.
for my it brings up the isync menu bar menu.
I found out what it does. It "moves the focus to the status menus in the menu bar", which means that it selects the leftmost status menu in your menu bar, and you can then use the arrow keys to switch status menus.
As others said, the shortcut opens the left-most menu in the menu bar. If you want this to be the keychain item, you can COMMAND DRAG the menu items in the order you want. So if you place the keychain menu left most, then Ctrl - F8 will open the keychain menu!
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