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Does anyone know of a way to enable keyboard control of menus on Touch Bar MacBooks? There’s the keyboard preference which I have enabled, but it doesn’t behav
by eric-hu 6y ago
Does anyone know of a way to enable keyboard control of menus on Touch Bar MacBooks?
There’s the keyboard preference which I have enabled, but it doesn’t behave the same as my non Touch Bar MacBook. I can keyboard-interact with confirmation dialogs on my 2012 MacBook to hit Ok or Cancel. On my 2019, I must use the trackpad or the Touch Bar. I’ve been googling for a fix or even a bug report but it’s a surprisingly hard thing to google for.
- extra88 6y agoDo you mean “Use keyboard navigation to move focus between controls?” That’s in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts.
- eric-hu 6y agoThat’s what I have enabled. That setting behaves differently between Touch Bar and non Touch Bar macs. On non Touch Bar Macs, you can hit space or enter to interact with a pop up dialog. On Touch Bar Macs, the tab key skips over certain UI elements as if they don’t exist. “Conveniently”, those elements are on the Touch Bar.
- addandsubtract 6y agoI'm not sure if this solves your problem, because I'm still on a non-TB Mac, but you can use CMD + [first letter] to select dialog options. For example, if you're closing an app and are asked if you want to save an open file, the dialog might have "Yes" preselected, but also let you choose "Don't save". If you hit CMD + D it will choose the "Don't save" option. Same thing for something that might say "All files" you can hit CMD + A to select it.
- eric-hu 6y agoI just took some time to try this and it didn’t work. I think the Touch Bar acts as another device and UI prompts get forwarded to them. Thank you for the suggestion though.