Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID
Date	2016-09-24 17:40 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2016-09-24, Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
> On 2016-09-24 12:54, Jolly Roger wrote:
>> On 2016-09-24, Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>> Also screwed up my keyboard settings (option and CMD keys).  I don't
>>> recall this happening on previous installs.  Easily remedied of course.
>>
>> Option and Command? Which settings would those be?
>
> SysPrefs|Keyboard|Modifier Keys.

Ah System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard > Modifier Keys. Okay,
thanks.

> I use a Logitech keyboard.  With the "default"[?] setting the option and 
> CMD keys are reversed.  (The one marked with the MS Windows Start logo / 
> option / alt became CMD;   the one marked with the Apple CMD flower etc. 
> became the option key).

Yuck. No thanks.

> In past .x updates the prior settings were retained (at least of the 
> last few - can't remember all of them).

Seems like a setting that should be preserved under normal
circumstances. Perhaps in Sierra Apple changed code in the area of
identifying keyboards and lost the settings as a result.

> I've had this keyboard since 2008 or 9 as I've never liked the Apple 
> chicklet keyboards.  Though that's what I use at work and I've come to 
> "accept" it.

I prefer Apple's keyboard to just about any other because the low travel
and tactile feedback allow me to type faster with less noise and effort.
But then I've been using them almost exclusively for many years.

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JR

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Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2016-09-20 21:42 -0400
  Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID David Ryeburn <david_ryeburn@telus.netz> - 2016-09-20 22:29 -0700
    Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2016-09-21 09:20 -0400
    Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Michael Vilain <mev94303y@yahoo.com> - 2016-09-21 08:05 -0700
      Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2016-09-21 11:17 -0400
      Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-09-22 03:31 +0000
        Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Elfin <elfinarc6@gmail.com> - 2016-09-22 10:37 -0500
          Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-09-22 11:13 -0500
            Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-22 12:26 -0400
            Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-09-23 02:25 +0000
        Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr> - 2016-09-23 19:50 +0200
    Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2016-09-22 16:29 -0600
      Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID David Ryeburn <david_ryeburn@telus.netz> - 2016-09-22 15:48 -0700
        Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2016-09-22 21:00 -0400
          Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2016-09-22 21:51 -0400
            Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2016-09-22 20:26 -0600
              Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2016-09-23 10:55 -0400
                Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID David Ryeburn <david_ryeburn@telus.netz> - 2016-09-23 10:11 -0700
                Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-09-23 13:21 -0400
                Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID "Andre G. Isaak" <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2016-09-23 11:45 -0600
                Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-09-23 19:01 +0000
                Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID "Andre G. Isaak" <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2016-09-23 13:10 -0600
                Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID David Ryeburn <david_ryeburn@telus.netz> - 2016-09-23 18:13 -0700
                Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2016-09-24 17:44 -0400
        Caps Lock keys (Was: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID) David Ryeburn <david_ryeburn@telus.netz> - 2016-09-22 21:50 -0700
          Re: Caps Lock keys dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2016-09-23 20:17 +1200
        Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-09-23 20:05 -0500
      Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2016-09-24 01:55 +0000
        Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-09-24 01:59 +0000
          Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2016-09-27 00:21 +0000
  Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-09-24 09:14 -0400
  Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-09-24 12:31 -0400
    Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-09-24 16:54 +0000
      Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-09-24 09:57 -0700
      Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-09-24 13:03 -0400
        Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-09-24 17:40 +0000
          Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-09-24 13:47 -0400
            Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-09-24 18:14 +0000
              Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-09-24 15:09 -0400
        Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2016-09-27 00:23 +0000
          Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> - 2016-09-26 17:51 -0700
            Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-26 20:58 -0400
              Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2016-09-27 10:57 -0400
                Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-27 13:10 -0400
                Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2016-09-28 10:32 -0400
                Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2016-09-29 10:25 +1300
                Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-09-28 18:40 -0500
                Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2016-09-29 13:28 +1300
                Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2016-09-28 02:28 +0000
                Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-27 22:30 -0400
                Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-09-28 05:06 +0000
                Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-28 10:30 -0400
                Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2016-09-28 10:27 -0400
            Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-09-28 19:12 -0400
          Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-09-28 19:11 -0400
    Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-09-25 02:56 +0000
      Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-09-25 17:04 -0400
        Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-09-26 04:37 +0000
          Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-09-26 12:57 -0500
          Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-09-26 18:47 -0400
            Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-09-27 01:02 +0000
              Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-09-28 19:19 -0400
                Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-09-29 00:16 +0000
                Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-09-28 20:39 -0400
                Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-09-29 01:26 +0000
                Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-09-29 04:25 +0000
            Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID "Mongoose" <mongoose@rikkitikkitavi.com> - 2016-10-03 16:11 -0400
              Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-10-03 22:52 +0000
                Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-10-03 20:20 -0500
        Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screwed Apple ID Me, myself and I <baiheli.pip.li@xs4all.nl> - 2016-09-26 08:52 +0200
  Re: Grrrr! Sierra Screws up (Apple ID or preferences or ....) "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-09-24 20:44 -0500

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