Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo

CTRL+F2 should do the trick. Also, you can change the key mapping in preference so that the F1..N keys work as such by default (not controlling things like volume).

Even w/ CTRL+F2 I've found that it isn't as efficient as plain old alt. It would be cool if Quicksilver had a focus context mode where it new the app you were on and could call sub commands, etc. Wishful thinking....

Take a look at Quicksilver Proxy Objects.

www.themerlinshow.com/.../008-howto-quicksilver-application-menus

www.celsius1414.com/.../1432

@Tim,

Already loaded. It still feels a little cumbersome to access the menus this way vs using the alt key.

Ah well.. i tried.

And by tried i mean, i looked up and said "hey someone with a mac.. JP needs to know how to use an alt menu type nav on OS X.. suggestions?"

if i hear of others, i'll pass them along.

This won't help with the menu access issue, but you can change most of the modifier keys by following these steps:

www.macosxhints.com/article.php

I'm also a .Net developer who recently switched to a Mac, and keyboard shortcuts have been the most difficult adjustment to make. I've decided to tough it out, though, to try to get into the Mac frame of mind. Other than that, I am absolutely loving OS X. I bought a 24", 2.8GHz iMac 2 weeks ago, and I haven't been this excited about a computer since my very first one. Things are so intuitive, and the whole experience is just super slick. My only regret is having not switched sooner. Have fun!

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I'd like to hear what software people are running from a Mac perspective to get things workable from a Visual Studio/.Net perspective: i.e. (MacBook Pro, VMWare, QuickSilver, others???)

Thanks

I have a 60GB Boot Camp partition with Windows XP and all of the standard .NET development tools loaded, as well as VMWare Fusion installed on OS X. This gives me the flexibility to boot to Windows natively, and I can access that same system virtually through Fusion.

I've found that Fusion is fast enough for most things I do on my home system (Office, Paint.net, Nero), but for development (or gaming), native is the way to go. When you're running Sql, Asp.net, Vs.net, a browser or three, etc., you need all the power you can get.

theappleblog.com/.../quick-tip-enabling-full-keyboard-access

Try this link for full-keyboard access. It should get you going. It's still different than Alt and whatever, but I think it will get the job done.