turning off shift F11

To turn of the F11 key, go to system preferences and open up Expose. Click on the F11 key and change it to "-".

I didn't see the shift part. Sorry about that.

Message was edited by: Glenn Leblanc

My F11 expose shortcut is turned off. The shift-F11 expose issue is a whole other animal. Maybe it's a system conflict with Quark on OS9 and I just have to accept that editing style sheets is going to be really annoying until my company moves to InDesign. On the other hand, if you have any other suggestions I would love to hear them. Thanks! 🙂

Hi jodano,

The Shift-F11 keystroke was thrown in to run that Exposé option in slow motion so it was more obvious during Steve Job's introduction of Exposé when it was first added to OS X. Under Panther, you could assign any other keystroke in the System Preferences to that option and it would automatically kill the Shift-F11 key. Apparently, not so with Tiger. I think a lot of folks would like to see that one removed from the OS. It serves no useful purpose.

Hi again jodano,

I was looking in the wrong place. I did post the solution to this problem quite a while ago, but that post had since been archived off and I couldn't remember how to do it.

Open the System Preferences. Click on the Dashbard & Exposé icon. Where it says Desktop: and shows F11 as the default choice on the drop down menu, change it to something else. If you click and hold the menu, you can press the Command, Option, Control and Shift keys. You can hold down one or any combination of them. So you can make that Exposé function Command OptionF11.

The big plus is that changing it kills the Shift+F11 slow motion effect. Then you'll get the keystroke back for Quark since Exposé will no longer be getting in its way.

This may help: Final Cut Pro 4: Some Keyboard Shortcuts Are Used by Exposé

what did you do?

Cliff, What did you end up doing to turn this off? This not being able to turn off the shift-F11 is driving me nuts!

G5 Mac OS X (10.4.5)