I love writing code in VS Code on my MacBook Pro. VS Code has a ton of shortcuts that let me keep my fingers on the keyboard and fly around, coding.
- Use Function Keys Mac
- Mac Touch Bar Always Show Function Keys
- Mac Touch Bar Show Function Keys Functions
In the dropdown menu, select Function Keys. At this point, the Touch Bar will show the function key strip by default no matter which app you're using. On the other hand, you can also go to Shortcuts and select the Function Key option on a per-app basis. This is handy if you like the Touch Bar in Photoshop but not anywhere else. Since the MacBook Touch bar has been in my pathetic, needy life, it's forced me to consider what I used the old function keys most often for. Predominately, changing screen brightness and volume.
- The Control Strip, located at the right end of the Touch Bar, lets you.
- The Touch Bar is an OLED strip positioned above the keyboard on the MacBook Pro. It replaces the function keys and adjusts depending on the app you are currently using.
- The Touch Bar is an OLED touchscreen strip positioned above the keyboard, providing users with customizable controls, ranging from traditional function keys to app-specific shortcuts and features.
Recently I purchased the new MacBook Pro with the touchbar, which has raised a new hurdle .. how do I use the function keys? These are helpful for refactoring shortcuts in VS Code. I could map these features to other keys, but there is an easy way to show the FN keys to the touchbar when in VS Code on a Mac.
Open System Preferences and find the Keyboard. Then select the Shortcuts tab. On the left, select Function Keys and click the Plus sign ( + ). This will open the Applications folder. Select VS Code (or VS Code Insiders, if you use that, like me). And that's it!
Keep in mind that the standard volume and brightness controls will not appear for this app now.
It would be awesome if VS Code had custom MacBook touchbar buttons. Perhaps some of the common FN keys, context sensitive debug buttons, and more. This github issue refers to this https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/14653
I love my MacBook Pro Retina 13″ with Touch Bar. I spent a fortune on it and found the keyboard odd at first. But now, four months into daily use as my work machine, I've adapted and now wouldn't use anything else.
But running Windows applications under Parallels on the MacBook Pro has been an issue. After decades of using function keys with Windows applications, my muscle memory naturally goes for them. And since I often want Ctrl-function or Alt-Ctrl-function, having to hit the MacBook Pro's 'fn' key to light up the function keys on the Touch Bar was inconvenient.
Use Function Keys Mac
Apple's engineers anticipated that some people would want function keys displayed on the Touch Bar for specific applications and provided for it by making a per-application option available in System Preferences, Keyboard, Shortcuts, Function Keys.
At first, I added Parallels.app to the list of applications for which function keys are to be displayed all the time. This works only when the Parallels Control center has the focus. A Windows application running in Coherence still gets the standard (and in this release of Parallels, non-customizable) Touch Bar.
But I discovered an easy way to display function keys on the Touch Bar for a specific Windows app by locating the Parallels shortcut to it and adding the Windows application shortcut to the System Preferences.
Mac Touch Bar Always Show Function Keys
Usb extreme mac. Open the Function Keys shortcut list in System Preferences, Keyboard, Shortcuts (see below; click on the image to enlarge).
Mac Touch Bar Show Function Keys Functions
Click the '+' button at the bottom of the list and navigate to /Users/[your userid]/Applications (Parallels). This is a Parallels-created shortcut directory. Find the Windows app you want to show function keys for in the Touch Bar, add it to the list and you're done. The image below shows what my shortcut directory looks like for one of my Parallels Windows VMs.
