More on Keyboard Shortcuts

Most kiosk-unfriendly keyboard shortcuts are either disabled by eCrisper or can be disabled through Mac OS X System Preferences.

However, some combinations involving the Eject key are not covered by these two methods:

Option-Command-Eject	Put the computer to sleep
Control-Command-Eject	Restart the computer
Control Option-Command-Eject	Shut down the computer

 

The solution is to use a free software utility for keyboard customization called KeyRemap4MacBook. This awesome utility allows you to re-map just about any key and works on all Mac OS X platforms.

For our kiosk problem, we need to re-map the Eject key to something else. Here is how.

1. Download and  install KeyRemap4MacBook (Download Link).
2. Restart your computer.
3. Go to System Preferences – a new icon should be there in the “Other” section at the bottom. Click on it.
4. Under the Change Key tab, expand the Change Eject Key section.
5. Check Eject to F15 – it could be anything but F15 does the job.

If you find any other key combinations that negatively affect your kiosks, please let me know.

For a complete list of Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1343

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