Icons in upper right corner of monitor when I press command, option, etc

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Icons in upper right corner of monitor when I press command, option, etc

When working in various applications I notice that when I perform a key command the act of pressing command, option, fn, etc triggers a OS command that is messing up what I'm actually trying to do. The command is accompanied by an icon in the upper right corner of my screen. What is this and how do I turn it off?

macbook pro, Mac OS X (10.6.5)

Posted on Nov 22, 2010 4:06 PM

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Answer 1

red_menace

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Nov 22, 2010 6:59 PM in response to THOR-DS

It sounds like you have sticky keys turned on. Go to *System Preferences > Universal Access > Keyboard* to change the setting (the "Display pressed keys on screen" option will put graphics for the modifier keys on the screen).

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Nov 23, 2010 11:11 AM in response to red_menace

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