Why are applications behaving this way (7,1)?

[choreo]

EXAMPLE:

I launch Photoshop - All palettes appear and Photoshop shows as active app in upper left corner. I then click Command-N to open a new document and just get an alert sound, but nothing happens. Once I click on any palette and then click Command-N the new document dialog appears?

If I double click a PSD on the desktop, it opens in Photoshop. Again Photoshop appears as active app in upper left menu. If I then choose any command (such as Command-J, Command-W, etc.) nothing happens but the alert sound. Once I click on the open document window or a palette all key commands work?

Same behavior in other apps too. It does not do this on my other Macs running Catalina, so must be some system setting?

 

[flowrider]

I'm not a user of the command key commands. But I tried the commands you listed. With command-n I get this box:



With command-j or w, I get nothing but the alert sound.


BTW, I'm on Big Sur.

Lou

 

[choreo]

I'm not a user of the command key commands. But I tried the commands you listed. With command-n I get this box:

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With command-j or w, I get nothing but the alert sound.


BTW, I'm on Big Sur.

Lou

Command-n - Opens New Document dialog box
Command-j - Creates new layer
Command-w - Closes open document

What you got when you clicked Command-n is what I would expect.

My problem is that most of the time the active app does not accept its related key commands until I click on an open document in the app or a palette in the app. Once I do that ALL my key commands work. My problem is just because the Finder says a particular app is active in the upper left menu, most of the time it will not respond to any of my key commands without taking that extra step. It is not the end of the world, but that is not the why is is supposed to act.