I just realized that I probably should have posted my message about the keyboard and mouse in the Mac OS forum. If I did wrong, I beg your indulgence and forgiveness. It's been a brute of a month, and I am not all there right now.
Thanks, everyone!
jenny
I wanted to loosen up the action on the keyboard and mouse for my Sawtooth G4 desktop. I adjusted the keyboard and mouse preferences, including making sure that the one for which button to use most of the time on my two-button mouse was set to "left." I opened "Options" on the keyboard shortcuts, just out of curiosity but didn't change anything. (I have never chosen any specialized keyboard shortcuts and use only the default ones.)
Then strange things started happening, including the fact that I was having trouble opening applications such as Firefox (2) with a double-click. I could open it only by holding down the righthand button on the mouse and choosing "Open." Not a big problem, but a nuisance.
I decided to look at the keyboard preferences again, and when I scrolled down the list, I noticed that there were four of them with little yellow triangles and exclamation points, indicating that those were being asked, quite uselessly, to serve two different functions. They were:
"Show Spotlight Search field" and "Select previous input source"?each with symbols for Command and space.
"Show Spotlight window" and "Select the next input source in the input window"?each with the symbols for Command, Option (I think) and space.
As I said above, I've never chosen to link any keyboard strokes to a special purpose. I tried clicking on the option to restore the default settings, but it didn't do the trick.
Any thoughts? Clearly, I did something I didn't know about when I changed the sliders for the keyboard and mouse?or maybe it happened at some other time, and it was just a coincidence with that.
Thanks for your help,
Jenny

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