I don't know about any of you, but I'm having a devil of a time ejecting CDs and DVDs from my g5 Mac. I have the eject key right on my keyboard. I press it. Nothing. I press it again, nothing. I press it twenty times, nothing.
You have to hold it down. But sometimes when I do this it works, other times it ignores me.
I click on the desktop then hold the key down and FINALLY the tray opens. Something is wrong with that. That tray should open whenever my finger hits the key, don't you think? I have no idea why it doesn't work. There's no other way to control the opening of that tray except for a paperclip
There's no other way to control the opening of that tray except for a paperclip
When I added a second optical drive to my G4 tower, a disk eject widget appeared magically in the menubar. Maybe there's a manual way to get that widget there. Oh...maybe there is:
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Eject: This item allows you to open or close the optical drive tray, which may be useful if you use a third-party keyboard and the F12 key does not open the tray. To show this menu bar item, do the following: 1. Choose "Go to Folder" from the Finder's Go menu. 2. Type or paste: /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras 3. In the Menu Extras folder, double-click "Eject.menu".
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Works. And weirdly, the eject KEY seems to be a bit more responsive. I still have to hold it down until the tray pops, but it's not TEN SECONDS like before, now it's only a second or two.
But it also reveals what may be the problem here. I'm sure this is because F12 is programmed in somewhere as the eject key, and on the new keyboard, F12 is volume up. Eject on the flat keyboard is its own thing, no F designation. The menubar eject menu item works, but it's still showing F12 as the equivalent keystroke, which ain't true anymore for me.
I checked the "Keyboard and Mouse" Pref Pane, and there's no mention of the eject key or F12
yes, to match the printing on the new keyboard. I think when I installed the new keyboard software, it went in there and changed some values. I can't remember. Now, there's a little dashboard icon on F4. You can override it if you want, but I hate the idea of not using semiotic information that's provided. For example, I can't stand hitting a key with a volume up symbol, and having it not do what the little picture says. That's ridiculous and counterintuitive to me. If Apple goes to the trouble of printing that shit on keys, I'd no more change it than I would remap my "E" key to some other letter.
