Saturday, August 04, 2012

In Mountain Lion "invert colors" shortcut not working

I upgraded my shiny new macbookpro to Mountain Lion and the keyboard shortcut for "Invert Colors" (ctl-alt-command-8) stopped working. To re-enable this, go to "Preferences/Keyboard/Keyboard Shortcuts/Accessibility" and check "Invert Colors". (Apparently too many Windows users were visiting Apple stores and turning on the "Invert Colors" for all the machines)
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6 comments:

  1. James W4:30 AM

    Thanks for posting this. I was cursing my new install, as it is a feature I'm quite fond of.

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  2. James W4:31 AM

    Thanks for posting this. I was cursing my new ML install, as it is a feature I am quite fond of.

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  3. Anonymous12:34 PM

    Thank you! I use this frequently and was unable to find a support file explaining why the Mountain Lion upgrade disabled this feature.

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  4. Peter1:21 PM

    Furthermore, if you go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts

    then select 'Accessibility' on the left and it will give you the option to turn the invert colors shortcut (ctrl, opt, command, 8) back on.

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  5. Steven3:26 PM

    Thanks so much for sharing! I was really confused about why the usual shortcut wasn't working..

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  6. Anonymous12:27 PM

    I found that I could not use Control-Option-Command-8 (after turning the setting on) when VoiceOver is on. A quick Command-F5 to turn off VoiceOver, then invert, then turn VoiceOver back on.

    mandyvan

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