symbolic keys...

[jmclaughlin]

Hi everyone, Has anybody been able to control their symbolic keys via MCX in Casper? I can't seem to get my settings to work.

John McLaughlin
Technical Support Specialist
Newton Public Schools

[talkingmoose]

I'm doing it here for one group.
On 11/16/10 11:47 AM, "John McLaughlin" <John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us> wrote:

What stinks is the keys are cryptically numbered and the values can be
cryptic as well. There's dozens of settings too and the
com.apple.symbolichotkeys domain controls other things such as Exposé and
Spaces. It's a real mess.

Rather than decipher each key to a preference setting I had the group tell
me the exact settings they wanted and then took the entire dictionary for
the AppleSymbolicHotKeys key from the com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist file
and plopped it into a "manual" value field.

In the JSS it looks roughly like:

Apply Setting To: User Level At Every Login
Domain: com.apple.symbolichotkeys
Key Name: AppleSymbolicHotKeys
Key Type: Enter Manually (Array or Dictionary)
Value: <dict> <key>10</key> <dict> <key>enabled</key> <true/> <key>value</key> <dict> <key>parameters</key> <array> <integer>65535</integer> <integer>96</integer> <integer>262144</integer> </array> <key>type</key> <string>standard</string> </dict> </dict> <key>11</key> <dict> <key>enabled</key>

[ ... snip ... ]

</dict> </dict> </dict>

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William Smith
Technical Analyst
Merrill Communications LLC
(651) 632-1492

[jmclaughlin]

I had pasted my com.apple.symbolichotkeys pref as well but the shortcuts
that I disabled are still enabled. I'm not sure what I could be missing. The plist does appear within Managed Preferences. What I'm trying to
accomplish is effectively disabling Universal Access keyboard shortcuts. Have you successfully done this?

John McLaughlin
Technical Support Specialist
Newton Public Schools

[talkingmoose]

I'm not sure whether or not that was on the list of settings my users
On 11/16/10 12:59 PM, "John McLaughlin" <John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us> wrote:
wanted changed. I did a quick compare between my default settings and
disabling all the Universal Access keyboard shortcuts. Found differences
in keys 15, 21, 25, 26 and 59.

Set "enabled" to false for each of these and see if that works.

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William Smith
Technical Analyst
Merrill Communications LLC
(651) 632-1492

[jmclaughlin]

Yeah, that's what I had too. Thanks for taking the time to check these
settings.

John McLaughlin
Technical Support Specialist
Newton Public Schools

[Chris]

Sorry for bringing up an old thread, bit I've got a question:

Is it somehow possible to not replace the whole contents of the AppleSymbolicHotKeys key?
I'd like to disable only a few subkeys and leave the rest up to the end user.

If i enter the subkeys i want to disable into the "Value" field manually,
the whole content of AppleSymbolicHotKeys gets removed (and thus the user's settings)
and replaced with only the few keys that I disabled.

So basically I'd like to "merge" my disabled subkeys with the user's settings,
is that even possible with MCX?