Keyboard shortcut

[v-600]

I used to have my macbook set to a British PC keyboard layout, just to have @,",£ in the 'correct' places. The ICT dept at work took the macbooks in and reset the keyboard (for their own inscrutable purposes).

While on the default apple keymapping I discovered by accident cmd+~ and now use it a lot to swap between open windows in the same program. I find it easier when typing than going for the mouse gesture.

However when I reset the keyboard to British PC again the command no longer works. I've tried combinations with the physical key and where the new mapping is but can't find one that works.

I know this is probably pretty niche, but I didn't find any obvious answers on google or on the apple support site.

 

[TheStu]

Ah, so it's a US MacBook, with UK keyboard software mapping? I can't even find a list of UK specific keyboard shortcuts, so I think that somehow switching the mapping screwed that up.

What about using Mission Control? There's a swipe that focuses on the windows of the current app.

 

[v-600]

I don't think its a US macbook specifically. A friend has one that was bought in the UK that has the same keyboard layout (I guess apple just does the one layout worldwide but I could be wrong). I just jump between my own laptop, Windows work laptops and my macbook. Having the @ in the same place is convenience.

I know the swipe up/down does all windows/program windows, but again its just convenience to hit the shortcut. Its certainly not the end of the world, but I can't work out why it would stop working altogether instead of either being on the same key or remapped key.

 

[v-600]

Didn't think of the obvious solution until just now. In setting I just reset the command to whatever the key now is. The physical key is now \ instead of ~ so I just reprogrammed it for command + \.

Problem solved.

 

[TheStu]

Didn't think of the obvious solution until just now. In setting I just reset the command to whatever the key now is. The physical key is now \ instead of ~ so I just reprogrammed it for command + \.

Problem solved.

I had totally forgotten that there was an entire section in System Prefs devoted to that. Shows how much I use my MacBook these days...