Apple - Control-F2 "Move Focus to Menu Bar" only works occasionally
When you're sure you've got your Fn key settings the way you want them and it STILL doesn't work:
My solution:
Go back into Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts pane.
For the item "Move focus to the menu bar", assign a DIFFERENT function key, other than F2. (Something you're not using, like, say...^F9...or whatever.)
Now use THAT key instead.
Sounds kind of nuts, I know. And it's annoying to use a different key. But I've found that ^F2 just won't consistently work after I've been using enough 3rd party programs, particularly if they're complex. Sometimes ^F3 will also fail, and that keyboard pane can start acting a little strange on its own to be honest. This does seem to work though.
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- I've had the same struggle with keyboard shortcuts to the menu bar (tried many different combinations).
the only one that has consistently worked is the help shortcut ⇧ ⌘ ? (shift+command+/)
from the help menu just use the arrows to navigate to file/edit/view…
Same here: ^F2 almost never works
Workaround that works for me (without assigning new shortcut):
press ^F3 and then immediately ^F2