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Mac OS X

The world's most advanced operating system. Finely tuned.

Shortcut Description
Force quit
eject Sleep now
Q Log out
Q Log out without confirming
eject Restart Mac OS X
eject Sleep display
eject Shutdown
Cycle between opened apps
Cycle between opened apps in reverse order
` Cycle between opened windows
` Cycle between opened windows in reverse order
F4 Cycle between opened windows from all applications
F4 Cycle between opened windows from all applications in reverse order
F8 Display Spaces
F9 Exposé for all windows
F10 Exposé for windows in select app
F11 Reveal desktop
F12 Dashboard
F2 Activate Apple menu bar
F3 Activate Dock
F8 Activate Menu Extras (right side of menu bar)
space Activate Spotlight
= Zoom in
_ Zoom out
volume Change volume without sound effect
volume Fine-grained volume control
volume Open Sound preference pane
brightness Open Display preference pane
C Force boot from DVD (while booting)
D Force boot from first internal hard-drive (while booting)
Safe mode (while booting)
V Enable verbose mode (while booting)
S Enable Single User Mode (while booting)
Open System Picker with bootable systems from mounted devices (while booting)

Keyboard symbols

  • ⌘: command
  • ⌥: option
  • ⇧: shift
  • ⇥: tab
  • ⌃: control
  • ⌦: delete
  • ↩: return
  • ⎋: esc
  • ↑: arrow up
  • →: arrow right
  • ↓: arrow down
  • ←: arrow left