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Ben Sinclair

What do you mean by "regular ABC"? I'm in the UK and Apple's keyboard layout is ISO but not really UK - it's somewhere between US and UK - so I have to go in and make a bunch of changes to get it as close to UK as possible.

I set cmd+Q to the thing that inverts screen colours, because it's the least destructive thing I could find and Apple don't let you turn the combo off.

Speaking of things you can't turn off, I set the dock to the smallest size allowed, auto-hide it and position it on the right edge of the monitor, so I'm less likely to trigger it by accident.

It's difficult to hack MacOS into a pleasant experience.

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jun

Thanks for the points, some are really great options :) The regular ABC means it's in English but I didn't set it to a specific country, the symbol above the key 3 on my keyboard is # but if I choose to British, it will type £ instead of #.

I was using dock position on the right edge before and just decided to change to bottom this time due to my monitor is on the right display position, and so far I don't have any issue with auto-hide.