Modifier Keys broken in OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
I said I wasn’t going to let this happen to me again, but dad-gum-it, I just couldn’t stay away. I like this mouse too much to leave it at the bottom of a bin. So when I upgraded to Snow Leopard this week, I figured there’d be problems. This was a surprise though.
The setting to swap the Caps Lock key for an extra Control key was no longer working with my Apple Bluetooth keyboard. This is crippling for me, as I spend a lot of time in the Terminal and using Ctrl key combos are the only real way to get around and edit lines of text.
A search found this blog entry:
The problem turned out to be related to the wireless USB hub for Logitech’s MX Revolution (and others?) mouse. If you unplug it before you change the Modifier Keys the changes do take effect.
Thanks for the tip!
3 Comments
Wow thanks! I had the same problem and indeed, unplugging the logitech usb-wireless mouse worked!
Posted by Rienk on 7 October 2009 @ 2am
Fix works as advertised, thanks for getting on the Google radar
Posted by nickyp on 23 October 2009 @ 6am
Excellent! Thanks for your work-around!
Posted by Matthew on 12 May 2010 @ 2pm