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palyons

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Like the Title says, pressing Fn+H key to show the Desktop. Need to disable that if at all possible. Have looked in the System Preferences under Keyboard > Shortcuts, and nothing.
 

Diskutant

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I'm not near a Mac right now so I can't check. But is that the Exposé feature? That should be in System Preferences - Spaces
 

palyons

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Mar 2, 2010
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I'm not near a Mac right now so I can't check. But is that the Exposé feature? That should be in System Preferences - Spaces
Yeah I tried that too. It shows as Show Desktop > F11. Fn+F11 doesn't work at all.
 

Diskutant

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Yeah I tried that too. It shows as Show Desktop > F11. Fn+F11 doesn't work at all.

That's because the Fn key isn't like a reguar key, it switches the function of other keys. Depending on your keyboard settings just pressing F11 might be volume down or F11, the Fn key indicates to use the other function.
You can't use volume down as a shortcut to show the desktop.
 

palyons

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Mar 2, 2010
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That's because the Fn key isn't like a reguar key, it switches the function of other keys. Depending on your keyboard settings just pressing F11 might be volume down or F11, the Fn key indicates to use the other function.
You can't use volume down as a shortcut to show the desktop.
I'm well aware. F11 for me functions as the Fullscreen key. In either Firefox or other apps. My mac by the way is an M1 MacBook Pro.
 

codemonkey4711

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Sep 10, 2015
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Like the Title says, pressing Fn+H key to show the Desktop. Need to disable that if at all possible. Have looked in the System Preferences under Keyboard > Shortcuts, and nothing.
I discovered that on my system, it's the 'globe' key shortcut that does this for some reason. If you go into 'System Preferences->Keyboard->Modifier Keys...' and disable the 'globe' shortcut then fn+h will stop showing the desktop.
 
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