The System Preferences Window
You can open System Preferences in dozens of ways:
Choose its name from the
menu.Press Option-volume key (
,
, or 
on the top row of the keyboard),
Option-brightness key (
or 
), or, on laptops that have them,
Option-keyboard-brightness key (
or 
). These tricks open the Sound and Displays
panes, but you can then click Show All or press ⌘-L to see the
full spread.If you know the name of the System Preferences panel you want, it’s often quicker to use Spotlight. To open the iCloud panel, for example, hit ⌘-space, type iclo, and then press Return. See Chapter 3 for more on operating Spotlight from the keyboard.
Turns out that if you put the System Preferences icon in your ...
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