Function key used to clear the desktop. What does that now?
Function key used to clear the desktop in Leopard. What does that now on Lion?
MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Function key used to clear the desktop in Leopard. What does that now on Lion?
MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
option-command-m minimizes all to the dock.
option-command-m minimizes all to the dock.
These are the only pre-configured shortcuts for OS X. Been the same forever. I'm not familiar with a function key that "cleared the Desktop." I'm not even sure I know what you mean by that. Perhaps you used some third-party utility.
Thanks for replying. I see that this does that to one or two windows. But what I used to do was just hit the function key and everythingwould clear away, leaving just the desk top. Is there a stroke to do that any more?
That should do it, have you modified your shortcuts or something?
System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts tab.
Thanks for pitching in. I never consciously installed a program. I just know that I stumbled on this -- that when I had a lot of open windows, I would hit the fn key (which I am calling perhaps erroneously, the function key) and all the open windows would be pulled off the desktop. Hit it again and they would all come back.
No, I didn't.
Got ya. I didn't know originally what you wanted to do. I think you want the shortcut to close all open windows. That would be Option-Command-W.
Kappy, thanks, I followed thelink you sent and it seems option-command-h does almost what fn did on my old macBook. Close enough. Thanks again to all.
Function key used to clear the desktop. What does that now?