Q: Slideshows stopped working after El Capitan update
Last week, I updated my OSX install from Yosemite to El Capitan, followed by an update a day later to 10.11.4. I intentionally waited for a few months before updating, because major version updates of OSX are almost always broken in some major way, and this time, after having been burnt badly with Mavericks and Yosemite when they first came out, I did not want to be the guinea pig.
I am a professor, and use Keynote for all my lecture slides. Two days after the update, I found that I could not use the presenter mouse to advance to the next slide. Thinking (correctly) that this was a glitch, I exported the Keynote slide deck to PDF with each stage of the builds and was able to get through that lecture after apologies for the wasted 2 minutes. Thanks for letting me down, by the way.
I tested this again on my office second monitor, and the problem persists. Presenter mouse, arrow keys on the MBP, etc. - nothing works.
I found a thread here that purports to provide a solution for this. The accepted answer on that thread does not work. My Presentation Type is already set to normal.
The only possible difference between my case and theirs I can find is that I am using a custom theme which is derived from the standard white. However, as the presentation type is set to Normal, that does not seem like it could be relevant. Logically, themes control graphic elements like how boxes, fonts, etc. are laid out. They can't control operating system interaction.
So, what gives?
MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4)
Posted on Mar 30, 2016 11:09 PM