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keyboard shortcuts not working, greyed out in menus

This afternoon suddenly all keyboard shortcuts except CMD-C stopped working in all applications, all menu entries for shortcuts are greyed out in all menus. All commands work when selected in menus.


Is there a Terminal-command to switch them back on?


If not: What can I do regarding diagnistics?


Thanks!This afternoon suddenly all keyboard shortcuts except CMD-C stopped working in all applications, all menu entries for shortcuts are greyed out in all menus. All commands work when selected in menus.


Is there a Terminal-command to switch them back on?


If not: What can I do regarding diagnistics?


Thanks!


macOS 11.6 (20G165) · MacMini (M1, 2020)

Mac mini, macOS 11.5

Posted on Sep 30, 2021 9:31 AM

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User profile for user: Barney-15E
Barney-15E
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Posted on Sep 30, 2021 4:27 PM

All command shortcuts are grayed out in all menus in Big Sur. That doesn’t meant they are disabled.

I don’t know why yours don’t work, but the fact that they are gray is irrelevant.


To my knowledge, there isn’t a command that enables or disables them.

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