I'm using Mac OS X Lion. When I press a keyboard shortcut, the corresponding item in the top menu gets blue background for a brief moment and then returns back to it's default gray background. It somewhat irritates me. Is there a way to disable this blinking?
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There's a known bug with Firefox for Mac not obeying shortcuts. There's more discussion in a different question on SuperUser.
You might have a look at Ukelele, a free Mac OS X Keyboard Layout Editor :
Ukelele is a Unicode Keyboard Layout Editor for Mac OS X versions 10.2 and later. Version 2.0 and later are only for Mac OS X versions 10.4 and later.
Beginning with version 10.2 (Jaguar), Mac OS X supports an XML-based format for keyboard layouts (.keylayout files). These may be installed by copying them to the Keyboard Layouts folder within /Library or ~/Library; then they are enabled via the Input tab of the International (Language & Text in 10.6) module within System Preferences.
However, modifying keyboard layouts—let alone creating entirely new keyboard layouts, such as for a new script—by directly editing the XML text is tedious and error-prone.
Ukelele aims to simplify keyboard layout editing by providing a graphical interface to .keylayout files, where the desired characters can simply be dragged onto keys as needed. (The Character Palette or Character Viewer, available in the Input menu if it has been enabled in System Preferences, is a great place to find the characters.)
In addition to simple assignment of single character codes to keys, Ukelele can assign multiple-character strings and can create "dead keys", where a keystroke sets a new state that modifies the output of the following keystroke.
For more information about Mac OS X keyboard layouts, as well as existing layouts available for download, see Input Resources. For some types of layout, particularly with large numbers of dead-key sequences, creating a layout with the text-based tool KeyLayoutMaker may be a useful alternative.
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If
Blueis the problem, and a darker greyishGraphitewould do the job for you and won't irritate you as much, you go toSystem Preferences, click onGeneral, and change the appearance fromBluetoGraphite. It's more towards the defaultGreyyou want, but a little darker. Attaching a screenshot of the same.In System Preferences
If this is not what you want, and disabling it or making it a transparent highlight is what your looking for, then you might have to wait till ShapeShifter is made compatible for OSX Lion.
Or you can hack OSX by going to this path and figuring out how to manipulate the XML in this folder:
/System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIToolbox.framework/Versions/A/Resources/English.lproj/. Since these files help us edit the menu options, there has to be an option to enhance the highlighting on the MenuBar also.You will need Xcode to do this ofcourse, but at your own risk!