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When I'm away from my office mac I typically login via screen-sharing or VNC from home/another mac. Lately, after using screen sharing this way, my office mac will have several problems:

  • Command+tab and Command+` no longer work
  • Expose and other F-key functions no longer work
  • ctrl+space to launch Google QSB no longer works

Things I have tried to remedy this:

  • Restarting the Finder process
  • Restarting the Dock process
  • Disabling the screensaver
    • Unfortunately, the screensaver still runs... A connected issue?
  • Deleting preference files for Dock/Finder/screensaver etc.

The only thing that seems to work is a restart. I usually try and avoid that.

System details:

  • Macbook pro 13"
  • OS v10.5.8
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Does killing the screensaver daemon or setting to a different screensaver not help? – ayaz Feb 3 '10 at 18:25
I didn't try setting another screensaver. I just changed the time to start to 'Never'. But killing the screensaver daemon does nothing. – moshen Feb 3 '10 at 18:27
It seems like the new version of Chromium is causing the problem. – moshen Feb 8 '10 at 20:40
Scratch that... Just had it recur. – moshen Feb 10 '10 at 20:42
Im stuck with this problem too. Looks like there is no solution – Zubair Mar 28 '10 at 16:08
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This seems to have been resolved after upgrading to 10.6.* (not a reinstall, just upgrade)

No indication of what caused it originally.

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