I'm having trouble with my Apple bluetooth keyboard for several days after upgrading my system to Lion. In a weird way, neither right shift+; nor right shift+' is working. I have no trouble with the left shift key, or the right shift key with any other keys. Can anybody give me some suggestion to solve this?
MacOS – weird behavior of right-shift key in combination with semicolon or quotemark key
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I'm posting the non-answer of "I reinstalled OSX and upgraded to Maverick from Lion, and it now works" because, well, it now works. Unfortunately I don't know what were the actual reasons it broken and then un-broken. I am sorry to anyone whom this question didn't help at all.
If anyone else comes up with a reasonable explanation I'll mark them as the answer instead.
Edit: Disregard the first part. [ Is the shift of { so we were saying the same thing different ways. I'm leaving this here though regarding disabling the Mission Control shortcuts.
The sequence to cycle forward through tabs is ⌘+shift+}, despite what the Window menu says. (⌘+} switches between windows. Very odd.) And ⌘+shift+{ cycles backward.
(You should also be able to reclaim ⌘+1, ⌘+2, etc. to switch windows in Terminal, which is what the Window menu says those shortcuts do, by going to System Preferences > Keyboard and disabling the keyboard shortcuts that use cmd+ a number under Mission Control. I haven't tested this though.)
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The most common cause of one key not functioning is that it has been somehow set as the trigger for Text to Speech or Speech Recognition in system preferences/speech.