Comments on: Fix Home and End Keys on Mac OS X

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:50:59 +0000

No dice on 10.7.

Oh well, the keys pop off pretty easily using a butter knife.

By: John McT

John McT — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:08:51 +0000

Fantastic. I was about to snap the Home, End, PgUp and PgDn buttons off the keyboard as I was pressing them and getting the wrong results. At work I switch between UNIX and Mac hourly and the non-standard actions were just WRONG.

By: Seriously

Seriously — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:55:49 +0000

I was forced on a Mac months ago. Thanks for posting this. I cannot for the life of me figure out what was going through their head. However, I’ve used all platforms as well but, I still think M$ Windows 7 has apple beat on UI efficiency. Another thing that totally pisses me off is having to have ui elements in focus before you can interact with it. So, now I can really double the time to carpal tunnel. Thanks again!

By: Fernando Madruga

Fernando Madruga — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 13:05:30 +0000

A million thanks!

This was driving me crazy on XCode 4.2 running on MacOSX 10.6.8 and this fixed it!

Thanks again!

By: Ivan

Ivan — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 10:21:35 +0000

It doesn’t work in Flash Bulder 4.5

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 08:02:53 +0000

It didn’t work for me either on an iMac OS X 10.7.1.
Created the file and directory in two places! One for the root user and one for my account… restarted the apps, the mac… Nothing!
With all the positive feedback from the users for whom it worked frustration hit the roof… Darn..

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:25:13 +0000

This fix didn’t work for me on Mac leopard 10.5. I am going to throw my computer out the window and tell my boss “It broke”.

By: Raoul

Raoul — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:11:35 +0000

I agree, OS X has many annoying things… and this is another one.

In Eclipse, the behaviour of these keys has to be configured under Settings->General->Keys.

Now I’ll try to fix it in Qt creator…

Thanks for this post…

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:03:05 +0000

Thanks, you made my day !

I tried DoubleCommand too, but apart from the confusing UI (I’d rather edit a file than using with dang checkboxes), there is no option to get a sane behaviour for page up / page down keys.

Regards,
Nicolas

By: mike

mike — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:22:21 +0000

Works for me too. Your welcome!