Eclipse Keyboard shortcuts in Mac OSX

Question

I'm running Leopard and do all my Java development in eclipse. Some of the shortcuts work such as Command-1 which will do a quick suggest. However how do I get the Function Keys (F5 for refresh in the package explorer) to work? Right now it brings up spaces or whatever System Preferences maps to that.

What about Control-click into a breakpoint when I'm debugging and want to go directly to the chosen function? Is there a way for my eclipse keyboard shortcuts to take precedence over other programs?

i'm running eclipse 3.4 though I've had this problem since eclipse 3.2.

Answer 1

Its been a while since I used eclipse on the mac but I think you have to go to Preferences.app and check the "keyboard" pane. There should be an option that chooses if its Fn-function-key or just function-key for the key press. After that, it would be Fn+F5 for expose and just F5 for F5. You will lose the ability to dim the screen and adjust the sound from the keyboard.

Answer 2

In system preferences under keyboard there is a toggle to turn the f keys into real function keys