MacOS – How to fix not working ⌘ ⎋ shortcut in Lion 10.7

When you're sure you've got your Fn key settings the way you want them and it STILL doesn't work:

My solution:

1. Go back into Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts pane.

2. For the item "Move focus to the menu bar", assign a DIFFERENT function key, other than F2. (Something you're not using, like, say...^F9...or whatever.)

3. Now use THAT key instead.

Sounds kind of nuts, I know. And it's annoying to use a different key. But I've found that ^F2 just won't consistently work after I've been using enough 3rd party programs, particularly if they're complex. Sometimes ^F3 will also fail, and that keyboard pane can start acting a little strange on its own to be honest. This does seem to work though.

coder

I figured out how to do this.

• Open System Prefs > keyboard
• On Keyboard Shortcuts tab choose Mission Control
• Enable the "Switch to Desktop..." shortcuts
• Now when you click on a window and perform the Switch to Desktop keyboard shortcut it'll move that window to the desktop

Guess there is a mouse component to this, so it's not pure keyboard. But I find it way easier than dragging windows around in mission control.