Hello Joe, Your System Preferences settings should stick, so it looks as though you have a problem somewhere.
First thing to do is repair permissions. To do this, open the Utilities folder (Cmd-Shift-u) and find Disk Utility. In Disk Utility, interact with the table and select the second row which should be your HD. Stop interacting and navigate right to select First Aid. Then go right again to Repair Disk Permissions. Click this and wait. You can see what's happening by interacting with the Results table. If this doesn't fix your problem, try resetting the PRAM. To do this, shut down your computer, then hold down the Command, Option, letter P and letter R keys and, keeping these four held down, press the Power key and release it. Hold down the four keys until you've heard the start up chime four times, then release them and let the machine boot as normal. If all this fails, you'll need to throw away the plist for System Preferences. It will be rebuilt immediately, so don't worry. You'll find this plist in your Home Library in the folder called Preferences (not Preference Panes). The file is called com.apple.systempreferences.plist. The Library folder is hidden but you can get to it in the Finder by pressing Cmd-Shift-g and typing "~/Library" without the quotes. You can put a shortcut to this folder in your sidebar by pressing Cmd-t once you've found the folder for the first time. Thereafter, you'll just need to find it in the sidebar. Cheers, Anne On 12 Aug 2011, at 22:46, Joe Paton wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I set the behaviour of function keys in system preferences, so the box is > checked to have f1 et cetera behave as they need to for voiceover, then we > reboot, and the check has leaped out of the box, and the function keys have > reverted back. > to there original assignments. > > This machine, does not display The login screen, just goes straight to the > desktop. > Anybody have an idea how to keep certain keyboard settings in system prefs in > lion after reboot?? I guess there could be other areas where settings are > not maintained. But what good is a guess? > Thanks good people. > > JP > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
