Weird shortcut messup

[David Dunham]

On 17 Aug 2007, at 15:54, Christiaan Hofman wrote:

>>  Have you perhaps changed the keyboard mapping? Show the keyboard  
>> layouts menu and see whether the flag is different than what you  
>> want. There's also a setting that causes the keyboard mapping to  
>> be picked anew for each text field, which can reset the mapping to  
>> something undesired.
>>
>
> I'm not sure what you mean here; you mean the list in the  
> International preferences?
>
> This actually may explain it. In fact I just noticed that it  
> happens only if I use the US Extended mapping, which somehow is  
> included in the menu, and not with e.g. the US mapping. So is there  
> a problem with that mapping? Can it be that textfield input can  
> switch the input mapping somehow? I never understood what triggers  
> changes of the mapping, I would have expected it to change

If I turn on US Extended (which is not the default, which is why your  
new account must have worked), I can reproduce this bug with Opal (a  
Cocoa app). Pretzel+option+P opens my Preferences dialog (normally  
activated by pretzel+,).

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