Talk:Command key

message: Do we really need the image of the symbol in the hedges?  How is that relevant? 24.49.35.99 (talk) 05:05, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image query 

message: I have never heard ANYONE  call it clover or splat or butterfly or beanie or flower or shamrock. Shamrocks have three heart-shaped leaves anyway. But the article talks about an "official name". Surely the Unicode name is official.... Evertype 12:34, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Me either. It's the command key, or the command key symbol. --Steven Fisher 02:01, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's me neither. This pisses me off. You don't say 'A eagle' do you? How hard can basic English be? 86.132.21.253 (talk) 11:23, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

text: A shamrock is a clover and the term "four-leaf clover" is popular enough that a layman may refer to it as such. I've never head of "splat" but i have the others mentions, plus "highway offramp thingy symbol," to quote. pattersonc 23:17, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

text: Just because Evertype has never heard the alternate terms used doesn't mean they aren't. I've heard butterfly and clover, and I've also heard propeller. As far as "official names" go, Unicode doesn't offer a name...only a number. The Apple HI Guidelines don't name the symbol itself, but the key is unambiguously referred to as "command."Exia 01:16, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No name in Unicode? The Character Palette assigns it the name PLACE OF INTEREST SIGN. So also does a Unicode 4.0 map at Columbia, and the Character Names Index at unicode.org. Doesn't that come from the Unicode standard? --Jackrepenning (talk) 22:07, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

text: With the senoir adults I tutor, I use the phrase "command key" and if I get a blank stare, I say "cloverleaf key"; that usually registers with them. The New Oxford American Dictionary defines cloverleaf: "noun> a junction of roads intersecting at different levels with connecting sections forming the pattern of a four-leaf clover. adjective> having a shape or pattern resembling a leaf of clover, esp. a four-leaf clover : cloverleaf rolls." --Charles Gaudette 22:30, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I usually refer to the key (to non Mac users) as "Apple", as in "Press Apple-space". The Apple symbol is much more recognisable to them than the Swedish campground thing. But I have also used the term "control-alt-pretzel" and been understood. PeteVerdon 21:29, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:   I still hear it referred to as the open apple key a lot. 63.238.141.34 21:53, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Its name 

message: MY G4 is frozen what is the short cut to force quit without shutting computer down?
D.I.
*Command-Option-Escape. Please sign your comments, it would help. WizardDuck 00:30, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  I wanna do a fore quit 

message: When a non-Apple designed keyboard is present in the Mac OS X environment the operating system tries to map a similar key to the Command key function.
I was under the impression that the Windows, Command, and Meta keys actually all have the same scancode, and that no keyboard detection on the part of OS X was required. Is this not actually the case? User:Glenn Willen (Talk) 04:15, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mapping of Command to Windows key 

message: Do you need a certain font installed to see the command key symbol? Viewing this page with Firefox 2 on Win XP (with the standard fonts as supplied) I see a question mark in several places where I assume the command key symbol is supposed to be. Using Internet Explorer 7 I see a small square instead of the symbol. --Kesfan 20:18, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, you need a browser that understands Unicode (as Firefox and pretty much every other browser does), and a Unicode font that contains the character. —Frungi 13:32, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Font To View Command Key Symbol 

message: How about including a section showing what key combo to hit in order to insert a Command icon? It's one of the few characters that I don't know how to insert. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wingedbeaver (talk • contribs) 18:28, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I normally use the Character Palette. I think the default keyboard shortcut for that is Command+Option+T. This particular symbol is located in the “All Characters” view under Symbols → Technical Symbols. Or you can use the search box at the bottom of the Character Palette and type “Place of Interest”  orijinal 21:40, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  How to insert Command character 

message: I noticed this particular sentence in the article: "The 'Open Apple' made a return on the MacBook Air, announced on 15 January 2008." I checked the Apple Macbook Air website, and it appears not to have an open apple on any key. I hesitate to change the article as I do not know whether there are multiple versions of the keyboard. I added a citation needed tag to the article for now. --Kainino (talk) 04:57, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Macbook Air + Open Apple 

message: Is there any advantage to using command over control? Command seems to behave exactly the same way as control does on windows, so what's the control key used for on mac? As far as I can tell, sometimes your get ported programs (e.g. matlab) which use control instead of command. This makes it really confusing because you then have to remember which key to use. So does it actually do anything other than confusing me, adding to the plethora of existing modifiers (my macbook pro has four! five if you include shift) and making copy/paste in terminals slightly easier? 86.132.21.253 (talk) 11:31, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know about "advantage", but if you want to use a Mac, you have to know which modifier keys to use. Command (⌘), Alt aka Option, Control, fn, and shift make 30 different combinations (not counting "none of the above" and Shift by itself), and it's not easy to remember what combo to use for what function in which program. I've got (pause to count) seven little cheatsheets on Post-It notes or taped-on slips of paper across the bottom of my iMac. The newest one is "Mail keyboard shortcuts", to jump to Inbox, Outbox, Drafts, etc. I came to this page while trying to figure out how to type it up. --Thnidu (talk) 17:01, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

text: The original Mac did not have a Control key (perhaps it sounded too geeky), so all keyboard shortcuts used Command. The Control key was added later for compatibility with Apple II/MS-DOS/terminal programs, so you're right on the money. A Mac GUI user may never have the need to press Control. Atarivideomusic (talk) 06:30, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Advantages 

message: Even though the Unicode code point number (U+2318) is already mentioned in the lead section, I've added it to The origin of "⌘" to go along with the Unicode character name. Also added updated references to Unicode Standard v6.0. --Thnidu (talk) 17:07, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unicode refs 

message: On the IIgs, the apple logo *was* used in the menus.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.139.81.0 (talk) 18:12, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  IIgs menus 

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