Adrift (alts) Mac OS

  • AltDeploy is a Cydia impactor alternative for Mac users. If you are facing problems in installing and signing of IPA files with Cydia Impactor on your iDevices then you can try this tool.
  • Depends on how you're controlling the remote PC. On most remote control software, you select 'Ctrl-Alt-Del' from the menu to send the command to the remote PC. The option key on the mac keyboard is also labeled alt and there is usually a delete key, too on larger / external keyboards.
  • Edit: Unfortunately, one of Apple's OS updates killed the above key combination for no good reason. So the only key combination available now is this less convenient one (if you have a Mac Mini or an iMac you have to press the physical Power button on the computer in addition to the other two keys in the keyboard): Control ⌃+Shift ⇧+Power ⌽.
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Plain Emacs for OS X uses both Alt keys as Meta by default. As many characters are typed using Alt on a german Mac keyboard (tilde, brackets, curly braces etc.), I'd recommend setting ns-right-alternate-modifier to nil, which enables typing tilde ( Alt-n ) and other characters using the right Alt key, while the left one can be used as Meta. If you've ever encountered an unresponsive program in Windows (and who hasn't?), you’ve undoubtedly used the Ctrl-Alt-Delete key combination to force the program to quit. Unlike PCs, however, macOS.

  • Sym: The symbol representing the key
  • Key: The common name of the key
  • CrossPlat?: Whether the symbol is cross-platform. If 'No', then the symbol is unlikely to render properly outside the Apple ecosystem.
  • Alt: An alternate symbol used in some contexts (e.g., legacy)
  • Alt CrossPlat?: Whether the alternate symbol is cross-platform

Modifiers

When a key combination is displayed, the modifiers are written in the order presented here. For example, Control + Option + Shift + Command + Q would be written as ⌃⌥⇧⌘Q.

SymKeyCrossPlat?AltAlt CrossPlat?
ControlYes
OptionYes
ShiftYes
CommandYesNo

The Command key was formerly represented by an Apple logo. The Apple logo is one fo the few symbols here that can be easily typed with a typical keyboard layout: ⌥⇧K

There is also an Fn modifier on modern Mac keyboards. Typically, this isn't seen in keyboard shortcuts because it's primarily used to access keys F1 through F20. However, it can technically be combined with Control plus one other key to get a unique legacy combination. Each of these Fn + Control combinations maps to a character in Unicode's U+F700 to U+F7FF private use range. Some programs will erroneously print these characters upon receiving such a combination. With system Mac fonts, these characters lack visible glyphs and are for internal use only. Quote from ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/CORPCHAR.TXT:

NeXT's OpenStep reserved corporate characters in the range 0xF700 to0xF8FF for transient use as keyboard function keys. The ones actuallyassigned in NextStep are 0xF700-0xF747, as follows. These are stillused in the Mac OS X AppKit frameworks. Note that there is no glyphassociated with these, and they are not mapped or used by the Mac OSText Encoding Converter.

Normal

SymKeyCrossPlat?AltAlt CrossPlat?
EscapeYes
EjectYesNo
Delete fwdYes
DeleteYes
Caps lockYes
LeftYes
RightYes
UpYes
DownYes
ReturnYes
❘⃝PowerNo
Page upYes
Page downYes
Back tabYes
TabYes
EndYes
HomeYes
EnterYesYes
Context menuNo
ClearYes
SpaceYesNo
Num lockYes

The alternate eject symbol,  (U+F804), is from a Unicode private use region. Apple designates it for use with mapping to/from the Mac OS Keyboard encoding. Ideally, the official Unicode variant should be used instead, as it will be compatible with fonts on other platforms. Quote from ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/CORPCHAR.TXT:

The following (11) are for mapping the Mac OS Keyboard and Mac OS Koreanencodings (for Mac OS Korean also see 0xF83D, 0xF840-0xF84F).

Reference: ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/KEYBOARD.TXT

These are the official Unicode symbol mappings published by Apple.

SymUnicodeMacKey nameNotes
U+21E70x05Shift
U+23030x06Control
U+23880x8AControlISO
U+23250x07Option
U+23870x8BAlt
U+23180x11Command
U+F8FF0x14CommandOld; solid Apple logo
U+F8FF U+F87F0x6CCommandOld; outlined Apple logo
U+21E50x02Tab right (LTR)
U+21E40x03Tab left (RTL)
U+23240x04Enter
U+24230x09Space
U+21A90x0BReturn (LTR)
U+21AA0x0CReturn (RTL)
U+232B0x17Delete left (LTR)
U+23260x0ADelete right (RTL)
U+238B0x1BEscape
U+23270x1CClear
U+24230x61Blank
U+21EA0x63Caps lock
?⃝U+003F U+20DD0x67Help
U+21920x65Right
U+21900x64Left
U+21910x68Up
U+21930x6ADown
U+21960x66Home
U+21980x69End
U+21DE0x62Page up
U+21DF0x6BPage down
U+F8030x6DContext menu
❘⃝U+2758 U+20DD0x6EPower
U+23CF0x8CEject
英数U+82F1 U+65700x8DEisuJapanese
かなU+304B U+306A0x8EKanaJapanese
F1U+F860 F 10x6FF1
F2U+F860 F 20x70F2
F3U+F860 F 30x71F3
F4U+F860 F 40x72F4
F5U+F860 F 50x73F5
F6U+F860 F 60x74F6
F7U+F860 F 70x75F7
F8U+F860 F 80x76F8
F9U+F860 F 90x77F9
F10U+F861 F 1 00x78F10
F11U+F861 F 1 10x79F11
F12U+F861 F 1 20x7AF12
F13U+F861 F 1 30x87F13
F14U+F861 F 1 40x88F14
F15U+F861 F 1 50x89F15
F16U+F861 F 1 6F16
F17U+F861 F 1 7F17
F18U+F861 F 1 8F18
F19U+F861 F 1 9F19
F20U+F861 F 2 0F20
U+F8020x0F
U+27130x12
U+25C60x13
U+21E30x10
U+21E00x18
U+21E10x19
U+21E20x1A

Mac Os Catalina

Some entries are missing key names; these don't map to physical keys.

LTR indicates usage with left-to-right languages: that means text flows from left to right, such as in most Western languages. RTL indicates the opposite. Many keyboards have both Delete Left and Delete Right, regardless of text direction.

ISO indicates a symbol designated by an ISO standard. ISO standard symbols aren't necessarily used by Mac.

Symbols composed of multiple Unicode characters are special in that they are treated as a single character on Mac, despite appearing as multiple symbols. For most of the characters, this grouping is controlled by the first character, which is a Unicode private use character that is invisible on Mac. The others use standard Unicode combining techniques. Quote from ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/KEYBOARD.TXT:

Mac Os Mojave

The block of 32 characters 0xF860-0xF87F is for transcoding hints.These are used in combination with standard Unicode characters to forcethem to be treated in a special way for mapping to other encodings;they have no other effect.