[iBook] Disabling ALL Keyboard Commands: Anti-Kitten Techniques

Anne Cartwright cartwrig at aye.net
Tue Jan 30 13:18:39 PST 2007


Obviously your problem is that you have Tiger on your iBook.

Anne


Fred Stevens K2FRD wrote:
> I have a new kitten which loves walking, running, romping, and 
> otherwise crossing my iBook's keyboard while I'm using it. She has 
> found new keystroke commands that I had never dreamed existed nor were 
> possible. I can't state what keys she pressed since her speed across 
> the keyboard approaches Warp 9, but the effects are such things as 
> causing an application's window to jump up and down, change 
> applications, move a window left, right, or down, and a lot more, none 
> of which I knew was possible with keystroke commands. None of these 
> are direct functions of the keys' surface purposes, i.e., alphabet, 
> numbers, characters, screen brightness, sound levels, etc. I have long 
> since disabled all keystroke commands and Function keys in System 
> Preferences. I couldn't find any preference to change in the Finder 
> Preferences and I tried Onyx to see if there is something I'm missing. 
> Nothing. Yet, this little furry monster (her name is Earthquake for 
> obvious reasons, age 3 months) manages to change my whole screen 
> performance by dashing over the keyboard. (She's also learned it's fun 
> to pry up the keys with her little claws, but that's another problem.)
>
> Any ideas or suggestions short of completely severing the keyboard 
> power strip or caging what is probably the cutest kitten since they 
> invented kittens?
>
> Fred


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