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fix your exposé keysposted nov 6th 2007 9:02am by eliah hechtfiled under: bugs, odds and endsmac-based wow players have been dealing with an odd little bug for quite some time. (more than one, actually, but i'm just going to talk about one here.) whenever wow is launched, it clears your exposé hotkeys (by default, f9–f11). oddly, it doesn't clear my spaces hotkey, which is set to f12, just exposé. i was hoping this bug would be gone in leopard and/or patch 2.3, but apparently that's not in the cards. going back into the exposé & spaces preference pane and resetting them isn't that hard, but it is annoying to have to do it every time.fortunately, the official forums have provided me with a solution. temari of kil'jaeden wrote a simple applescript which sets your exposé hotkeys back to their default settings. run it after you quit wow, and everything is once more as it should be. here's the application version of it; if you want to tinker or investigate, here's the source code [edit: links fixed]. the script's creator suggests adding it to your dock next to wow. i don't use the dock much (quicksilver forever, baby), but that's probably a good idea for those of you who do. by the way, this is apparently an apple bug, so don't blame the blue.edit: please stop posting your platform war comments. whether they're pro-mac or anti-mac, i don't care; don't post them please. i don't want to have to start deleting people.tags: bug, expose, fix, mac, scriptpermalinkemail thislinking blogscomments [29] related headlines gruul hotfixed again: hurtful strike restored (236 days ago - 4 comments) making 2.3 install in vista (today - 11 comments) around azeroth: a question of scale (4 days ago - 18 comments) the end of the (patch) day (today - 7 comments) horde and alliance raiding black temple together... almost (17 days ago - 17 comments) reader comments(page 1)1. this used to really bug me.then i got a 24" aluminium imac and just toggle the "use function keys as xxx" switch in the keyboard pref pane. the imac's keyboard keeps exposé on f3 and dashboard on f4 so nothing gets screwed up :) posted at 9:13am on nov 6th 2007 by junzim2. link is broken.posted at 9:23am on nov 6th 2007 by h8rain3. boo mac!posted at 9:24am on nov 6th 2007 by plixer4. yeah i have the new keyboard too and leopard. the big issue isn't expose (personally i just use "cmd m" to tab in and out of wow). the expose key works fine from there (f3).a much bigger issue is the new firewall in leopard. the current advice is to not put any blizzard programs in there and leave the firewall off. if you do put wow and the background downloader in there leopard alters the files so that they don't work. i had to do a full reinstall and download a massive 600 mb+ patch which was not fun.posted at 9:30am on nov 6th 2007 by brian5. h8rain: thanks, fixedposted at 9:30am on nov 6th 2007 by eliah hecht6. i would like to insert a comment making fun of mac users here, but the truthfully i just feel bad for them. life is hard enough without being saddled up with a computer that is "different" than the other 95% of pc's out there. thank the maker (um, steve jobs i guess) that macs will run windows now. good luck mac people. keep on truckin' with your beautiful, but cursed machines.posted at 9:48am on nov 6th 2007 by rambull7. lol plixer. didn't you get the memo? macs are a truly blissful user experience. what do you run..windows vista? (rofl)posted at 9:51am on nov 6th 2007 by grifter8. guys, this platform war is not interesting...posted at 9:53am on nov 6th 2007 by eliah hecht9. i think you should just disable comments now. everyone is gonna start a platform flame war, even me!reasons to get a mac1. most big-name brands already have mac versions, world of warcraft, adobe creative suite 3, roxio, etc.2. macs slow down, but never really crashed for me, or spat out error messages. 3. if you do have slowdowns, do this, run terminal, type "top -u" without quotes, then find out what program you want to kill, open another terminal, type "kill -9 [id number of program[". lets say i wanna kill laggy azureus who was stated to have a id number 872 in top, "kill -9 872". there, i just solved all your mac performance problems.4. for silly tools that make only windows compatible software, i also had my mac dual-bootable to windows too, xp only though because vista is crap.posted at 10:22am on nov 6th 2007 by chocoblow10. be careful when you're randomly killing processes, though...you might break something important. it's generally safe to kill a user application like azureus, but if you see something with an unfamiliar name (like, say, kernel_task), don't mess with it, at least until you figure out what it is.posted at 10:28am on nov 6th 2007 by eliah hecht11. also, it's a bit more polite to go to the application and quit it normally; it gives it a chance to save data, clean up temp files, and so forth.posted at 10:31am on nov 6th 2007 by eliah hecht12. @rambulli love my mac, and i feel sorry for windows users. you're either stuck using the disastrous vista, or you're stuck using xp from way back in 2001. nobody would use windows by choice, they have to use it.as for this bug, blizzard has said they consider it an os bug and have filed it with apple's radar system.posted at 10:36am on nov 6th 2007 by preston13. i actually wasn't aware of any conflict with the expose hotkey... i set up expose to a hotspot on my screen and play wow on non-full-screen mode, so i've never noticed the problem.will check it out when i get home to my mac (and away from my pc-centric workplace... bah).thanks, wowinsider. :)posted at 10:53am on nov 6th 2007 by doffencrag14. macs are glorified fisher-price activity centers for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.posted at 10:54am on nov 6th 2007 by samel15. i'm highly amused that your demographic's hot button issues are whether or not girls are allowed in raids, and the macintosh platform.can we, perhaps, age-limit people who comment on these things? maybe just restrict it to people who've had their testicles descend? [girls are so disruptive to conversation i don't include them in the qualifier - they'll come in and mess it all up anyway.]ah, well. i don't use exposé, so i had no idea that the bug existed. blissful ignorance. i'd be happy if they'd find a way to let the "your battery is dead, idiot" message pop up over the application instead of putting it in the finder and thus killing all input until the message is dealt with.posted at 11:06am on nov 6th 2007 by nyx16. nyx: instead of spending much time on the idiocy of "girls are so disruptive to conversation i don't include them in the qualifier - they'll come in and mess it all up anyway", i'm going to help you out with your battery issue. but sexism like that is completely ridiculous.slim battery monitor (http://www.orange-carb.org/sbm/) has a window that (if i remember correctly) pops up over things, and, as a bonus, takes up less space in your menu bar and is much more configurable than the default battery indicator. i love it.posted at 11:09am on nov 6th 2007 by eliah hecht17. not to ruin your little diatribe, eliah, but i need to point out two things:- i'm a girl.- that comment was sarcastic, as might be evident to anyone with a scrap of inference who could read the opening paragraph.but hey, don't let me stop you - you were on such an insulting roll there. reminiscent of tseric at his best, and we all know how well tseric did.posted at 11:30am on nov 6th 2007 by nyx18. d'oh! perhaps i should have caught your sarcasm. but judging by the tone of a lot of people in the wow community, can you really blame me?i don't see how i'm meant to infer that you're a girl just because you're amused by the girls-in-raids discussion.and i liked tseric :-pposted at 11:35am on nov 6th 2007 by eliah hecht19. huh, i've never had this problem at all. in fact, i can't use these keys in wow for the action bar because they activate expose instead... maybe because i'm running it in windowed mode?posted at 11:50am on nov 6th 2007 by charlie taylor20. ...i just changed the 'bags' hotkeys in key bindings...posted at 12:04pm on nov 6th 2007 by krishannext 20 comments
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