Position of the mouse cursor without clicking and dragging.
Press and hold Shift+ Alt to skim - scrub/seek using the horizontal. Usually move the app window so, press Alt after you start dragging. On Linux, pressing Alt before dragging will While dragging shot or trimming, press and hold Alt to temporarily. (I much prefer the way Apple handled it prior to 10.3, but I won't go into that here.Press and hold Shift+ Alt to skim - scrub/seek using the horizontal It's also a little strange in the Finder if you click on the name of an item and drag, it will move the item, but if you click on the empty space in a row and drag, it will expand the selection. It can be very confusing in programs that let you drag the items around, like iTunes. Some applications let you do this, some don't. This will select every item from the first previously-selected item down to the item you clicked on.Ī somewhat less-standard behavior is dragging. The second way is to hold down the Shift key and click on an item. To add to what HomunQlus and Burns said, there are two standard ways of selecting multiple list items in the Mac.įirst of all, you can hold down the Command/Apple key and click on each item you want to select (or deselect if it's already selected). It's also sometimes called the Flower key, because the other symbol on it looks a little like a flower.Īnd Alt is usually called Option in the Mac world, just so you know. Command is the official name for it, and Apple is what people call it because on the default keyboards shipped with new Macs, it has an Apple on it. it was deemed impractical S) instead, cmd/shift clicking instead is required.Ĭlick to expand.In case this isn't 100% clear, the Apple key and the Command key are the same thing. alt wil never be a command/control key like cmd, it will only ever modify.Ĭtrl in macos is pretty much just for ctrl-clicking (right click menu for one button mouses)ĭrag selecting is not possible in itunes. menu items also change to their alternates/opposites. this works on a lot more than you would think, functions in macos change subtley with the alt key held down (look at the playlist button in itunes when holding it, and also the rotate picture button in iphoto for examples). use this to modify things before clicking them. cut copy and paste is apple+x, c or v.Īlt is, simply, alternative/alternate, and is far more so than in windows. 
to quit something, it's not alt+f4 (why would it be?) it's apple+q, for quit.
The apple key is central to a lot of stuff, it's the commanding/controlling key. All the things you would use ctrl for in windows are replaced by the apple key, or command (cmd).
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