Escape Key Strange Happenings

canuck1975 · Dec 11th, 2005, 12:12 PM

Yello!

For some reason my esc key is acting like my F9 key and it's driving me insane. I'm using Tiger on an iMac G5. I can't figure out how to reprogram the esc key to actually escape me out of what I was doing.

Any ideas?

Lawrence · Dec 11th, 2005, 05:22 PM

	Quote:			Originally Posted by canuck1975
	Yello! For some reason my esc key is acting like my F9 key and it's driving me insane. I'm using Tiger on an iMac G5. I can't figure out how to reprogram the esc key to actually escape me out of what I was doing. Any ideas?

To force quit a program?
Is that what you mean?

Command-Option-Escape will give you a "force quit" pop up menu to quit a program.

canuck1975 · Dec 11th, 2005, 10:02 PM

No. The actual escape key on my keyboard. It's activating Expose and driving me insane.

Lawrence · Dec 12th, 2005, 08:14 AM

	Quote:			Originally Posted by canuck1975
	No. The actual escape key on my keyboard. It's activating Expose and driving me insane.

Well that's strange, It shouldn't do that, To my knowledge I haven't seen that.
All I can suggest is to check all the preferences.

Perhaps Apple discussions has an answer if no one else on here can suggest something.

I could suggest repairing permissions, But I'm not sure if it will fix it, It looks like it's a preference.