I have the wired Apple keyboard that has the numeric keypad.
When I try to use the command or control keys in Cs4….they don't work.
When I checked the keyboard input area in my preferences..it shows a keyboard that looks nothing like the one I'm using.
How can I get my Mac to recognize my keyboard.
Thanks for your help.
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Mac OS X home and end keys do not function the same way as they do on other systems.
On Mac, the Home and End keys go to the top and bottom of a document, instead of to the beginning or end of a line.
Check out this Lifehacker article which shows how to remap the functionality of the home and end keys to make them perform like they do on other systems.
It is called Projective, with Unicode U+2305, and it represents Enter which is different to Carriage Return, represented with a ↩.
Although most of the time they work in the same way, there is a difference between Enter and Carriage Return. While Enter, in most cases, will make a GUI object operate at its default function, the Carriage Return is meant to reset the user's position to the beginning of the line of a text.
Just doing fn+Return should trigger it.
On the short keyboards you'll either find the name or the icon.
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Best Answer
Have you tried re-running the Keyboard Setup Assistant? First, get macOS to "forget" your keyboard:
sudo rm /Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboardtype.plistand then reboot your Mac. If it still doesn't recognize the keyboard, you can try manually running the setup assistant
sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/KeyboardSetupAssistant.app/Contents/MacOS/Keyboard SetupAssistantto see if it detects any keyboards it's not sure about.