Snow Leopard Spotlight Keyboard Shortcut: Control-Space?

Friday, September 4th 2:16pm Matt

Somehing scary happened with my Snow Leopard keyboard shortcuts. I accidentally went into Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard and checked “Show Keyboard & Character Viewer in menu bar”

Don’t do it!

Once you turn it on, there’s no getting rid of it. It’s a bug, but unselecting the check box will no do it.

At some point I also went into Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts and pressed the “Restore Defaults” button because it said there were some conflicts. I don’t have any special keyboard shortcuts set up, so I just wanted the defaults. But now check out these two screenshots.

Command-Space now means “Select the previous input source.”

Control-Space now means “Show Spotlight search field.”

Huh? For my entire Spotlight history Command-Space has brought up the search field. But now it’s changed to Control-Space because of input sources? These screen shots show I’m not hallucinating, but can someone please commiserate with me or at least confirm that this is bizarre?

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